"Oscilloscopes"
This was a series of oscilloscope renderings done for the cover and illustrations of a friend's physics thesis. The project called for 2 cover shots, each labeled according to the topic covered, and 7 screen shots that would be used to illustrate scenarios throughout the paper which needed to be accurate in the waveforms they were depicting

The oscilloscope itself was modeled from two photographs, one wide shot, and a close-up depicting its control screen. The control labels were drawn in Corel Draw!, saved as a bitmap and then mapped onto the face of the control panel. The same technique was used for the cross hairs on the screen. The waveform shapes were actually tubes, lofted circles along paths created to match the mathematical outputs to be illustrated. The glow around the waveforms was accomplished without an IPAS, using the technique covered in "the details" #4 where a projector spotlight is used in conjunction with an opacity map to illuminate a selected area.

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