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I am very new to Blender and am using it to create images for a new kind of solar energy device. However, one of the pieces of this device is an optical filter: i.e. it is a square plane that reflects ONLY the red light. Thus, blue light can pass through.

My question to the wonderful people on Blender Stack Exchange: is there any way of creating a material that reflects only a small portion of the visible light? I realize that this is a very niche topic, but any ideas or advice you may have will be much appreciated!

Thanks so much in advance.

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Would something like this work? The Glossy reflects only red and the Transparent Shader allows all the Green/Blue to pass.

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    $\begingroup$ Ah! This is perfect, thank you so much for your help -- it is much appreciated! $\endgroup$ – David R. Needell Sep 28 '17 at 17:52
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A different way to think about this is to make the light source have different colors for glossy rays and for transmission:

In this example direct rays will be white, reflected will be red and transmited will be blue.

The plane in the middle has a simple glass shader.

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  • $\begingroup$ Thanks so much for your help in this, this is another great way to accomplish this. $\endgroup$ – David R. Needell Sep 28 '17 at 17:53

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