Reflection Mode

The reflection-mode parameter chooses how the reflection works out the subject’s pose. It takes manual or ai and defaults to manual, or to the mode of a cast drop shadow when one is set.

Under ai, a depth model estimates the pose from the photograph.

An explicit reflection-pose wins over ai. The model is only consulted when no pose is given, so reflection-mode=ai&reflection-pose=40 renders exactly as reflection-pose=40 alone. Leave the pose off to let the model decide.

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ai adds roughly 30 ms per render and uses the dedicated AI worker. One model run serves both an ai shadow and an ai reflection, so a product shot that uses both pays the cost once.

On animations reflection-mode=ai falls back to pose 90.

An unknown word falls back to manual and is left out of the X-Imgix-Params response header. There is no mark-reflection-mode.