# Interesting finding with polished materials 🐣
**URL:** https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/interesting-finding-with-polished-materials/18749
**Category:** Modeling Questions
**Created:** [April 13, 2022, 10:05pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/interesting-finding-with-polished-materials/18749 "2022-04-13T22:05:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@woodbytes](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/woodbytes)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2022, 10:05pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/interesting-finding-with-polished-materials/18749/1 "2022-04-13T22:05:33Z")
I created a very simple webcam adapter for my monitor and played around with visualizations. The adapter was made for 3D printing, so it is a piece of plastic. But I dropped some gold a polished metal on it just to see how it will look. And then I discovered something behind the camera. But see for yourself… 😃
[https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/a/a66e8a0e66283429d2c3a837a9353cbd66ec2707.mp4](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/a/a66e8a0e66283429d2c3a837a9353cbd66ec2707.mp4)
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### Author:  [@Istvan](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Istvan)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2022, 10:15pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/interesting-finding-with-polished-materials/18749/2 "2022-04-13T22:15:28Z")
Yes, this is how [Image Based Lighting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image-based_lighting) works. More IBL maps are coming soon 🙂
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### Author:  [@welshsteve](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/welshsteve)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2022, 12:16am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/interesting-finding-with-polished-materials/18749/3 "2022-04-21T00:16:06Z")
Yes. I’ve had fun exploring that room since visualisation was released 🤣