Crystal Ball Refraction
The scene is shown inside a glass sphere, upside down and compressed, with a bright rim. It imitates how a lens ball refracts its surroundings, popular in travel and landscape photography.
Spot it
- 01Inverted mini scene
- 02Glass sphere highlights
- 03Dark blurred surroundings
Why it happens
Rays through a transparent sphere refract twice, flipping and compressing the scene; the effect is modeled by remapping pixels inside a circle with an inversion and edge distortion.
Recreate it in Pixio
Image edit prompt“Show this image inside a clear crystal glass ball: the scene upside down and compressed within the sphere, refracted edges, bright specular highlights and a thin bright rim, the ball resting in a softly blurred dark background. Keep the original subject and composition visible inside.”
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