Free Wheel

Opposition creates choice. Pragmatic or artistic? Harmonious or chaotic?
Gray-shaded or colorful? One is free to look on whichever side.
Actually we are not that free as we must experience both sides to get to know what is the bright one.
To be born is the same as passing through a double door leading to a double world.

Experiencing this duality allows us to understand that the true world is just not one of them.
The worlds we know are only the worlds we choose to live in.
To "die" means to get rid of this bounded illusion called "free will", and to get in touch with the truth.

But then the ultimate paradox arises: we need many lives to finally
realize that the wheel of time is only an illusion.
We experience time when there is a motion, but we completely forget
the notion of time as a reference frame when there is emotion.

I got this idea by browsing through Steve's entries. "Early to bed" was the most inspiring one, because it represented a direct and intimate contact with a concrete reality: his.

But his picture is entirely virtual. So I am asking myself "What if the world we are experiencing in our daily life only a virtual copy of the real world?". One object of the scene was particularly interesting.

"The radiometer (AKA light-mill) was invented by the English physicist Sir William Crookes. It consists of a set of vanes reflective on one side and blackened on the other and mounted on a sensitively balanced spindle in a partially evacuated vessel. When exposed to light, the blackened sides become warmer and repel air molecules from the surface. Since the reflective sides have no effect whatsoever, the slight difference in air pressure created causes the vanes to rotate."

The checkered plane on the left (dark) side is made of reflective and dark squares. Underneath this regularity lies a motion, a circular one allowing the cube for becoming a sphere, allowing colorful life for emerging from darkness.

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To produce the scene, I simply reused the technique explained previously when dealing with general mirror shapes. In order to draw this picture, first display any of the two worlds and the curved window A in front of it. Then display the other world and the other half B of the window. We don't see parts of the other world because it is hidden by A. At the end, simply draw the environment because the window is as opaque as the door. Notice that both grounds are not cut out of the window/door. But the sea-like plane is slightly higher to hide them from outside.