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.