Ok its a tough one to describe if you`ve never seen the toy...but they sell these stress balls with mercury looking liquid inside so it almost looks like liquid clouds inside, when you squeeze it the liquid (light and dark) swirls around all turbulent like. I have thought of using turbulent displace, but it doesn`t seem to swirl around or feel very liquid like. Any ideas?
Re: Creating swirly 'mercury-esque' clouds by david bogie on Apr 25, 2008 at 6:03:12 pm
No idea which of many toys you're talking about.
Fractals comes to mind. You just play around with the dozens of parameters will you get something that resembles what you want and then try Brainstorm.
If you want to be able to control the displacement of the surface as if fingers where touching it, you will need to spend a few hours with WaveWorld.
You will simulate mercury with judicious application of tint using grays. I cannot think of a way to impart an accurate reflection map.
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