TITLE: Living Room NAME: Shigeyoshi M COUNTRY: Japan EMAIL: sigeyosi_m@yahoo.co.jp WEBPAGE: http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA020725/ TOPIC: Opposites COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION JPGFILE: living_r.jpg ZIPFILE: living_r.zip RENDERER USED: POVray 3.6 for Windows TOOLS USED: POV-Ray 3.6(98%) Saishu 1.00private edition (POV-Ray's color, rgb output) TEAD (Text Editor for Authors and Developers FreeEdition re1.2) Aion 1.01(image maps of diaplay's image) WindowsPaint and JTrim 1.47a(image maps of Tatami's edge) IrfanView(to resize, convert to JPG) RENDER TIME: 54min 17sec (+A0.001 +W1280 +H960) HARDWARE USED: Main Pentium4 1.7GHz RAM 256MB VRAM 64MB WindowsXP Sub note Celeron 600MHz RAM 128MB Windows98se IMAGE DESCRIPTION: According to the Buddhism, opposition doesn't confront each other. They say that they are not two but one. For example, "vimalakiirti-nirdeza-suutra", 'The truth of un-two'. In the generality of cases, 'mind-body unity' and 'love-hate unity' are understood as well, and the people naturally accept that... You think from the material, and there are a bit of differences in the inside of the Japanese house and outside. The Japanese paper of the shoji and a tatami are grass. (When using heater, the ventilation isn't needed because Shoji's paper is half- permeation) Making a wall out of soil. , , A pillar is not painted. Simple is beautiful. A Japanese never thinks that it is poor. Ultimate Japanese luxuriousness is Wabi Sabi (the beauty to be found in simplicity). "Simplicity is gorgeous?" I understand that the question is "You are living life to the full?" If your spirit is poor, you would not understand Wabi-Sabi. According to the "vimalakiirti-nirdeza-suutra", the best hospitality is invitation to the empty room. The Buddha's hospitality is not things, but the truth. Life in the Japanese house seems to bask in the wood. It is going through the inside and the outside. In Japan, a human being coexisted with the nature from the beginning. A ceiling and a roof were removed because it is fully understood. The sense of incongruity is not in the room even if it is exposed to the air and the sunlight. It is life in the Japanese house that the wind always blows. It is open-doored composition, so that the window and sliding door can take off all. Even if the people stay at home, they are wrapped in nature. Organic woods are cut square and it is used like a un-organically building materials. Material is used in accordance with each wood's characteristic (in such cases as each of tree's hardness, the curve and the direction of the grain). Round decoration is given to glass, and it seems to be an organic image. A female's profile is arranged in the (scale 0.28)display. This room's truth can be seen by becoming the point of view of the cat because Yasujiro Ozu(film director)'s low-angle shots. This room is small(2.61m x 2.61m = 5.22sq.m), but a tatami looks like the rural landscape which a rice field spreads out all over the map. A rural landscape is brought into the inside as it is. Of course, it may seem to be a baseball field and a football ground. 'L'Empire des signes' Roland Barthes, or the Buddhism's truth 'one is many'. Using a Japanese-style room is vague, and it isn't decided clearly. Though this is a living room, sometimes, it becomes a bedroom, a study, a drawing room, game's room, PC-room, tea room, and a dining room, etc... It is made as the various rooms from the beginning. And a house itself becomes one big room if all sliding door (tategu) are removed. Japanese philosophy is not a document, but it appears in a culture and definite thing like a house. This living room will be never seen in the tourist spot of the beauty spot, historic site. Because, it's not special, but people's house. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: This year March, I found 3D and POV-Ray. April, I began to create my house in 1949. Now it continue to work... It's not high technique, but rudiments of training. So you can't find gamma and radiosity. This source files are a part of whole files. Japanese house' base is tatami, but the size is not regular. So the window and sliding door too, they are custom-made. Japanese house's woods are hinoki (Japanese cypress), sugi(Japanese cedar, cryptomeria), paine and keyaki(Japanese tree of the genus Zelkova) etc... Most of pillar, window and sliding door are hinoki and sugi, their color are just like a paine. My skill is poor, so I can't create new colors at this time. ftv.inc : The challenger Ftv201 products made in Japan, I-O data, 20.1inch TV and 800x600 PC display. That scale is difficult because camera is low-angle. Tatami's edge : I took a photograph of edge with camera(Olympas i:robe500), however, it wasn't interesting. I painted edge, but I'm not satisfied with it because the edge's color has to change from various camera angles. The edge is like a embroidery... And I am unhappy with my tatami...for an order is too correct.