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I'm really hoping someone will make a metallic texture that behaves like an actual metallic colour - i.e. reflecting the environment. I think that would require

I'm really hoping someone will make a metallic texture that behaves like an actual metallic colour - i.e. reflecting the environment. I think that would require some awareness of surrounding colours as well as using the webcam to capture light coming on the the screen surface.

lostlogin 4y ago
> using the webcam to capture I’m just imagining the dialogue boxes asking for permission to use the camera to show me a button.
- yreg 4y ago
  Reminds me of SwitchGlass[0] preferences. The author talked on his podcast that he really wanted to display user's wallpaper as it currently appears, but he found out that to determine which "frame" of an Apple dynamic wallpaper is shown SwitchGlass would need to ask for location permissions. [0] - https://hypercritical.co/switchglass/ https://hypercritical.co/switchglass/
mikaelaast 4y ago
OP here. Believe it or not, that was actually exactly my conceptual starting point. Goes without saying that I had to scale back my ambitions just a tiny bit.
- matheist 4y ago
  Do it!!! And face recognition to grab the viewer's position so you know how to render the reflections
SebastianKra 4y ago
Naturally, this exists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36fwRWryD64 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36fwRWryD64 Naturally, it didn't catch on ;) A similar thing was done in iOS 6 with brushed metal reflecting based on the gyrosensor: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/c9X7D87uJ7Q https://www.youtube.com/shorts/c9X7D87uJ7Q