Creative Shapes Made From Glass
Photo by: Pieter Musterd
Glass generally refers to hard, brittle, transparent material, such as those used for windows, many bottles, or eyewear. Examples of such materials include, but are not limited to, soda-lime glass, borosilicate glass, acrylic glass, sugar glass, isinglass (Muscovy-glass), or aluminium oxynitride. In the technical sense, glass is an inorganic product of fusion which has been cooled to a rigid condition without crystallizing. Many glasses contain silica as their main component and glass former. more info in Wikipedia.
You do realize that almost all of these images are computer renderings and not actual glass right?
blank, you’re wrong (mostly). I am a glassblower and have seen much crazier stuff than this.
Dude…. those are 3D rendered Wallpapers apart from the first two.
Me thinks the 2nd from top is a Dale Chihuly work.
I love the fruit glass things they’re so cute and clever. It’s crazy that people can manipulate glass to look like that. It’s a beautiful art. Good Job!!!
It’s not that the shapes are “crazy.” All of those shapes appear to me that they could definitely be made out of glass by someone, but those images are obviously renderings. If they aren’t, the photographer has manipulated the living crap out of them. There is a mathematical cleanness and brightness to the majority of the images, a lack of real focal depth and atmospheric interference, that you only get in a rendering. If those are truly glass, the person doing color correction and cleanup needs slapping.
The first (not the hot glass, but vases) does remind me of Chihuly, and it and the very last one (tubes) are the only two that really look like genuinely photographed glass. Look at the reflections and refractions, for crying out loud. The rest are some lovely and detailed renderings, but renderings nonetheless.
As they say on the interwebs “having seen many Photoshops in my time…” yadda yadda.
Do some more research you can find much crazier glass than this, glass is an under represented art, check more out and see what these artists can do!
http://lhnova.deviantart.com/art/Glass-Apple-For-Tutorial-21159490
They are rendered.
They’re all fake. I can tell by looking at the pixels
I don’t care if these are glass, rubber, or poop. They are fun to look at no matter what they are. Why is everyone so critical on the web?
If you were walking down the street in NY and saw some tourists staring up at the Empire State Building and saying, “Ooh, the Statue of Liberty,” wouldn’t you correct them?
MY SENTIMENTS EXACTLY SAM, WHY DOES EVERY ONE HAVE TO BE SO NEGATIVE, YES I KNOW EVERYONE IS ENTITLED TO THEIR OPINION, BUT COME ON GIVE IT A REST!
One thing to always remember: something photographed, and on display on the internet, or in magazines and sometimes in newspapers, too, IS NOT AS IT APPEARS. No photograph in the public eye is displayed without touchups.
If you see something that is supposed to be a photograph of something, just say “shopped” because IT IS. You cannot trust photgraphs to be the actual image of what was actually shot.
Of course it’s possible to make glass into all of the shapes represented here, but…these are “photographs” of “glass shapes” displayed on the internet. Therefore, they have been tweaked, manipulated, changed, or invented wholesale. Period. That’s the way it is.
Doesn’t make it bad or evil…just makes it…shopped.