Charred cypress 焼杉
Board grain from layered value noise, burned back to near-black.
7 boardsChapter zero — the approach
Where stillness reveals the unseen
A five-chapter walk up a mountain path after dark. Every stone, roof, lantern and falling leaf on this page is generated in code at load — the page carries no photographs at all.
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I / 門 THE GATE
01 — 04
A threshold is a change of air
The gate does not keep anyone out. It marks the line where the ordinary road ends and the path begins, and asks you to notice crossing it.
Two uprights, a curved lintel, and a second beam beneath it. Vermilion, because the colour was thought to hold the weather off the timber — and it does, for about a decade at a time.
Walk on1 200metres up
40steps to the hall
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II / 庭 STILL GARDEN
Three views
What the hall is made of
No mesh is imported and no texture is downloaded. Each surface below is a canvas drawn at boot, turned into a normal map, and hung on a standard material.
Cut granite 切石
A block field with chipped edges and a bevelled top course.
2048 pxShoji paper 障子
A lattice drawn over warm emissive paper — the only bright thing up there.
6 baysWeathered lacquer 丹塗
Vermilion, cracked along the grain where the sun has had it.
4 postsTile roof 瓦
Half-round pantiles swept along a curve, not a repeating photograph.
3 roofsThe moon 月
Maria, ray systems and a crater field, drawn once at 1024 and never again.
1 discChapter IV / 残光 AFTERLIGHT
Come back before dawn
The walk resets each time the page loads. Nothing here is recorded, cached or sent anywhere — the whole scene is rebuilt from a seed.
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