"It reads the geometry like a lie detector," Sol said. "Wherever two surfaces get close—a wall meeting a floor, a rafter touching a beam, a rock pressing against a foundation—light struggles to reach. Real light bounces. It's lazy. It avoids tight corners. AO calculates that loneliness."
Lena had been staring at her SketchUp model for three hours. The geometry was perfect: a mid-century modern cabin, nestled into a rocky hillside, with deep overhangs and a sprawling deck. Every beam, every mullion, every board of the cedar siding was exactly where it belonged. ambient occlusion for sketchup
The walls were flat. The corners had no weight. The space under the deck—which should have felt like a cool, shadowed retreat—glowed with an impossible, uniform brightness. It was technically correct, but artistically dead. "It reads the geometry like a lie detector," Sol said
Under the first, she wrote: Geometry.
Under the second, she wrote: Gravity.