Lighting formulas
Exact parameters for north light, low winter sun, evening lamplight and the overcast day that flatters every material.
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The 2026 Spatial Lighting
The 2026 Spatial Lighting
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The exact formulas and spatial parameters we use to achieve honest materials, depth, and believable architectural proportions in modern renderings. Yours free.
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Ninety six pages of things we normally keep to ourselves.
Material recipes
How to describe oak, unlacquered brass, limewash and bouclé so they read as themselves and not as plastic.
Proportion rules
The ratios that make a room feel considered, and the ones that quietly make it feel wrong.
Full room walkthroughs
Complete parameter sets for a kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, hallway, study and living room.
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Formula 23
Recipe 05
Formula 07
One formula, so you know what you are getting.
Evening lamplight, single source
One lamp, one pool of warmth, and the rest of the room falling away. Name the falloff. Otherwise the model lights the whole room evenly and calls it evening.
Unlacquered brass, living finish
Bright where hands touch it and darkening everywhere else. The unevenness is what separates it from the yellow plastic look.
In the full masterlistNorth-facing room, late morning
Cool indirect daylight at a low angle, no direct sun, with warm bounce returning from a wooden floor.
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