Observatory

Please do this. Making telescopes and optical illusions in structures through lenses would be amazing. While on the subject, perhaps mirrors?

Ouch – could be expensive to render – especially the mirrors.

Just thinking about how that would have to be coded and then how it would tax the machines made me cringe a bit. It is a nice concept, but would be awful to implement, so I completely understand.

Thank you for even considering it momentarily, though!

Exactly – and the reflects are expensive.

So instead of one “mirror” for the reflections, we’d be doing N renders for all the mirrors.

Why would it be expensive? Water has constant changing/morphing reflection and this could be ‘static’? That shouldn’t be too expensive in terms rendering power.

The portals aren’t ‘too’ expensive either since you either see a very narrow part of the other world or a very little part of your current world.