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\"Highly<\/a>
Highly reflective sphere<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a simple sphere that moves a bit away from my regular reflective treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Inkscape<\/a>, I made a black sphere on a gradient background. I duplicated and intersected the sphere and made the intersection white to imitate reflectance of the ‘floor’ part of the background gradient. I made a white rectangle and converted to path, then bent the top and bottom paths to make the reflection of an overhead lampappear to bend upon the top surface of the sphere. I created center gradients for both the black and white parts of the sphere. I added a grey, blurred, flat gradient for a shadow beneath the sphere. Finally, I duplicated and lowered the opacity of the black sphere and moved it down to create a reflection of the sphere itself in the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hope you all enjoyed it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Highly reflective sphere<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3659,1128,4110,3654],"tags":[76,365,411,642,865],"class_list":{"0":"post-397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-design-principles","8":"category-illustration","9":"category-inkscape-portfolio","10":"category-portfolio","11":"tag-arts","12":"tag-graphics","13":"tag-inkscape","14":"tag-photography","15":"tag-vector-based","16":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/20100324.png?fit=495%2C495&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-6p","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":97,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2015\/05\/04\/supernova-cc-by-lemasney\/","url_meta":{"origin":397,"position":0},"title":"Supernova cc-by lemasney","author":"lemsy","date":"2015-05-04","format":"image","excerpt":"\"A supernova is a stellar explosion that briefly outshines an entire galaxy, radiating as much energy as the Sun or any ordinary star is expected to emit over its entire life span, before fading from view over several weeks or months.[1] The extremely luminous burst of radiation expels much or\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Illustration"","block_context":{"text":"Illustration","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/category\/portfolio\/illustration\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Supernova cc-by lemasney","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/starburst.png?fit=427%2C640&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":196,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/02\/02\/42-of-365-is-a-cat-sleeping-on-a-tabletop-inkscape\/","url_meta":{"origin":397,"position":1},"title":"42 of 365 is a cat sleeping on a tabletop #inkscape","author":"lemsy","date":"2010-02-02","format":false,"excerpt":"So this is my cat Jimmy, sleeping not on a table, actually, but a media switch. 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