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In lugnet.technic.bionicle, Jason J. Railton wrote:
> I quite like the water effect these tiles give.
As I said, they didn't work out quite how I'd hoped, but it works well enough
that the intent is instantly recognizable. And if located on the edge of a
display, it can result in a self-replenishing "foam" effect, courtesy of jealous
club-members. ;P Nah, just kidding. It did get a lot of "wow, look at all the
trans-blue" remarks, but I kept pointing out that I got them cheap on Bricklink
from a store that had a ton of them.
> This photograph seems to have picked up the underlying colours a bit too
> clearly. In reality, you can use pretty much any colour you like under the
> tiles and it will appear blue.
It'd be a lot more expensive, but I suspect the result might be considerably
improved if you switch to other transparent colors underneath the trans-blue
tiles.
> If you use blue plates, the effect is very deep water.
It looks more like an medium depth equatorial water to me. Like what you'd find
in the Carribean. Trans-dark blue over trans-dark blue gives a much more
accurate temperate water color, like you'd find in the Great Lakes. Black would
probably look best for Arctic water
> Tan and light grey look shallower, like up to a beach or shingle. Greens
> will add a tint of colour. Red and black make for good shadows. Gradual
> changes are harder, and require experimentation with orange, yellow, teal if
> you have it.
Yeah, in small scale like this, you're dealing with a direct color shift between
two plates. If you work it in a much larger scale, you have the benefit of
using varied pixelation to blend two colors together.
Dark colors would be easier to blend together, not only because there is a wide
variety of them, but because darker non-blue colors will read much differently
through trans-blue, so dark-red looks only slightly less dark than black.
> What I love about it is you can make black shapes on the bottom, and just
> like in real water you can only see them by looking straight down - at an
> angle, you just get blue and reflections. Every angle you look at it, it's
> different.
They don't look significantly different to my eye, but are those 1x6 raised
strips supposed to be breakers?
> Here's the same boat, from a different angle:
Hey, that's the boat from Jaws, isn't it?
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