Forming field

← Series CMISH / FIELD STUDY 02 ORTHO −Z · 256² v0.1.2

SAME SHADOW

Same projection. Different bodies.

Fig. 01 — depth ray same (x, y)
What the shadow discarded. occupied z
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Canonical occupancy

Locked shadow lamina

Three different bodies are subsets of the same extruded cylinder S × ℝ. S is a rounded cross with a circular hub, defined by a shared signed-distance mask. Canonical projection is orthographic along −Z, up +Y. Occupancy of a pixel is the binary test that the ray through that pixel meets any occupied z-interval. By construction the three masks agree exactly on any raster of S. Off-axis views are inspection; the invariant applies only to that named projection. Paper and UV change presentation, not geometry. Not a manufacturable part. The field is a 64² column tessellation of those intervals, not a second geometry. Seams are the raster of S.