With the recent release of the SG-1 and Atlantis Stargate desktop models from Master Replicas, I’ve seen more than a few people asking for images of the puddle effect they can print and insert into their model to make it appear to be active.
While a production-used animation loop of the puddle,1This video was included in a large library of leaked video playback, and was used for the rear-projection puddle screen used to show the Stargate active in the background of scenes when people weren’t walking through it it’s compressed and relatively low-resolution. I rendered off a 4K image of my version of the puddle effect which should look a bit better printed .
EXR Version (Zipped, 159 MB)2Are there HDR printers? Just in case.
A lot of people are also using miniprojectors to make a live puddle on their models. I’ve uploaded a 38 minute puddle movie with opening, closing, and sound effects to YouTube. Here’s just the clip of the puddle loop by itself, if you’d rather download the file to run the movie indefinitely.