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Mirrors

Multi-axis reflection patterns

Mirrors creates multiple reflections in Individual, Rosette and Kaleidoscope modes. Each mode has its own geometry controls.

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Mirrors

Overview

What Mirrors does

This is Resolve FX Mirrors, distinct from Krokodove Mirror with its two-point reflection line. Here Mirror Placement selects three arrangements, so the visible controls depend on the selected mode.

Individual provides six independent Mirror 1–6 sets. The first is enabled in the original PNG. Enable Mirror activates that mirror; Position sets the line center, Angle sets its direction, and Flip changes the reflected side. Add mirrors one at a time to identify their contribution.

Rosette assembles reflected wedges around a shared center. Position moves the center, Angle rotates the pattern, and Wedge Width controls wedge thickness: narrower wedges produce more repeats. These are not the six separate Individual sets.

Kaleidoscope uses a shared center and repeating geometry. Center Size changes the repeating cell size, Angle rotates the pattern, and Number of Sides selects 3 for triangular or 4 for rectilinear structure. This describes the cell shape, not the number of active Mirror 1–6 sets.

Reflect at Borders adds a reflection when the transformation would bring black outside-source regions into the image. Review all four boundaries. It does not restore detail absent from the source.

The two original PNGs show Individual and the placement menu. Wedge Width, Center Size and Number of Sides are documented separately from the Resolve 21 manual; their sections are not expanded in those PNGs.

For a local effect, feed the original into Merge.Background, the processed branch into Foreground and a mask into Merge.EffectMask. Pattern geometry and blend coverage can then be adjusted independently. On transparent graphics, inspect alpha alongside RGB.

When to use it

  • A controlled mirrored seam in Individual.

  • A radial wedge pattern in Rosette.

  • Triangular or rectilinear kaleidoscopic structure.

  • A local reflection on a separate Merge branch.