City Sun

Compare the lighting above, with the photo of the Chrysler building taken by Aishado.


Chrysler Blue
by ~Aishado on deviantART

Skull

Transverse fly through of MRI scan of Homo Sapiens cranium.



Coronal fly through of MRI scan of Homo Sapiens cranium.



Sagittal fly through of MRI scan of Homo Sapiens cranium.



Rotation of volume rendered MRI scan of Homo Sapiens cranium.

Yakushi-ji 薬師寺

Yakushi-ji (薬師寺), Nara, Japan.



The temple of Bhaiṣajyaguru, the Buddha of Medicine.

Twenty five years ago I was granted permission by the Japanese government to study the entire Heibonsha art and architecture survey. I remember weeping when I saw the detail of Yakushi ji. At this time I had been studying and practising the tradition of Yakushi, in Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese. A few years later I also studied the tradition in Tibetan as well, and more indepth research in the medical practices and pharmacology of it.

I have been following development of Lucille Global Illumination Renderer on Flickr for some time, and today got it to build on OpenSuSE 10.3. So I chose to celebrate by exporting an old model of Yakushiji and rendering it.

Exported from Blender via Mosaic to Lucille.

Blender to Renderman forum blog
Blender to Renderman forum newsgroup

Mosaic Renderman System.

Lucille Global Illumination Renderer.
Lucille github source code.
Lucille Blog
Lucille Wiki
Lucille Render on Flickr.

Yakushi-ji Wikipedia

Bhaisajyaguru Wikipedia