Digital Landscapes
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How rendering light digitally changed the way I understand physical space.
When I first started generating landscapes in software, I thought I was escaping the constraints of physical reality. I was wrong — I was actually learning to see it more clearly.
The mathematics of light, the way it bends around objects and bleeds into shadows — these things do not lie. A renderer forces you to understand what you are describing. Vague intuitions about how a sunset looks become explicit parameters.
Over time, moving between digital and physical work became less about switching modes and more about carrying the same set of questions between them.