{"id":109,"date":"2008-09-19T12:52:14","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T18:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=109"},"modified":"2011-07-21T22:00:15","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T04:00:15","slug":"caustics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2008\/09\/caustics\/","title":{"rendered":"Caustics&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Trying to turn-a-phrase with the word &#8216;caustic&#8217; is pretty difficult &#8211; hence the boring post title.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, the previous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/teafinal1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Teapot Render<\/a> lacked\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caustic_(optics)\" target=\"_blank\">caustics<\/a>, which is another powerful aspect of Mental Ray.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Caustic-tacular\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/caustics_final.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/caustics_final.jpg\" alt=\"Ooooh...shiny.\" width=\"416\" height=\"312\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is not as souped up as the Teapot Render, but it was a good exercise to show off the caustic capabilities of Mental Ray.\u00c2\u00a0 Plus, it looks kinda cool and was fun to model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to turn-a-phrase with the word &#8216;caustic&#8217; is pretty difficult &#8211; hence the boring post title.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, the previous Teapot Render lacked\u00c2\u00a0caustics, which is another powerful aspect of Mental Ray. It is not as souped up as the Teapot Render, but it was a good exercise to show off the caustic capabilities of Mental Ray.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,81,18],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-caustics","tag-maya","tag-mental-ray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}