Amiga Reflections

{{Short description|3D modeling and rendering software for Amiga}}

{{Infobox software

| screenshot = Amiga Reflections 2.0 cover.png

| caption = Reflections 2.0 cover (1992)

| developer = Carsten Fuchs/MSPI

| released = {{Start date and age|1989}} (as a book plus floppy disk)

| operating system = AmigaOS, Windows

| genre = 3D computer graphics

| license = Proprietary

| website =

| discontinued = yes

}}

File:Amiga Reflections 2.0 disks.jpg

File:Amiga Reflections 2.0 test scene.png

File:Mikrofone.png

Amiga Reflections is 3D modeling and rendering software developed by Carsten Fuchs for the Amiga. It was later renamed Monzoom.

The first bookware release was 1989, and contained a book and a floppy disk. The book was the manual and had some tutorials explaining how a raytracer works. The floppy contained the software with some models and examples.

Carsten Fuchs extended the software with a more advanced modeler and an animation module in 1992, the Reflections-Animator.

The drawback of the improved modeler in Reflections 2.0 was that the program required far more RAM than before, leaving less free space for scene objects. On a 1 MB Amiga, the 2.0 modeler could only handle about 1,000 triangles (or spheres) at most. With 2 MB RAM, up to 10,000 triangles were possible.{{Cite book |last=Fuchs |first=Carsten |title=Reflections 2.0 manual |publisher=MSPI |year=1992 |pages=14}}

As of version 4.3, in 1998,{{cite web|author=Andreas Magerl |url=http://www.amigafuture.de/asd_search.php?submit=1&cat_id=13&e=Carsten+Fuchs |title=Amiga Future |website=Amigafuture.de |access-date=2016-07-15}} Amiga Reflections was renamed Monzoom or Monzoom 3D and distributed by Oberland Computer.{{cite web|url=http://www.amiga-magazin.de/magazin/a10-98/koeln.html |title=AMIGA-Magazin |access-date=2010-03-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718195525/http://www.amiga-magazin.de/magazin/a10-98/koeln.html |archive-date=2011-07-18 }}

Monzoom Pro was available on CD with the March/April 2008 issue of the German print magazine Amiga Future.{{cite web|author=Andreas Magerl |url=http://www.amigafuture.de/kb.php?mode=article&k=2357&highlight=monzoom |title=Amiga Future : Amiga Future Ausgabe 71 |website=Amigafuture.de |access-date=2016-07-15}}{{cite web|author=Andreas Magerl |url=http://www.amigafuture.de/album_page.php?pic_id=4526 |title=Amiga Future : Gallery : Issue 71 Cover |website=Amigafuture.de |access-date=2016-07-15}}{{cite web|url=http://www.vesalia.de/e_af71.htm |title=Vesalia Online - Amiga Future 71 (March/April 2008) |website=Vesalia.de |access-date=2016-07-15}} Monzoom also became available for PC as Shareware.{{cite web|url=http://software.magnus.de/grafik-video-audio/download/3d-programm-monzoom-s.html |title=3D-Programm Monzoom S - - Grafik + Video + Audio - Software - magnus.de |access-date=2010-03-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090722232245/http://software.magnus.de/grafik-video-audio/download/3d-programm-monzoom-s.html |archive-date=2009-07-22 }}