Voxel Diorama

Kōrin-en — The Pagoda Garden

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Garden Controls

Vantage
Camera
Slow auto-orbit
Cinematic tour
Keep above ground
Drag to orbit · two-finger / right-drag to pan · wheel or pinch to zoom · double-click a spot to walk the focus there.
Hour of day
Sky & light
Advance time automatically
Lanterns & interior glow
Season
Blend
Seasons cross-fade: blossom gives way to leaf, leaf to colour, colour to snow.
Planting
Drifting blossom
Birds & butterflies
Fireflies after dark
Sky state
Atmosphere
Rain rings on water
Detail
Render
Sun shadows
Baked contact shading
Auto-adjust for framerate
Show performance readout
Keys
H help · C hide panel · Space pause time · Arrows pan · - = zoom · 1–9 vantages · T tour · N night · R weather cycle · [ ] time · F fullscreen · Esc close
About
Every block in this garden is a cube: roughly — voxels, drawn in a handful of passes. Built with three.js · drag, zoom and linger — there are things to find in the planting.
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Reading the garden

Dragorbit the garden
Wheel / pinchzoom in and out
Right-drag / two fingerspan the view
Double-clickfocus on that spot
Shift + dragpan (mouse)
Arrows / WASDwalk the view left, right, forward, back
- / =pull back, move in
1 – 9jump to a vantage
Look for: the sleeping cat on the south steps, the bronze crane pair at the pond, the fox guardians at the shrine, the tiny Jizō in the bamboo, the frog on a lily pad, and the light that comes on inside the pagoda at dusk.

Kōrin-en

The Pagoda Garden
waking up…
The garden could not be planted.
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