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: 


<introduction>
 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...

<inside and outside>
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.

<rich and poor>, <full and empty>, <things and spirit> 
 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.

<Organism(plant), and mineral>
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.

<big and small>
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. 

<single and diversity>
'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.

<idea and things>
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. 







