The night
One corner in Cihangir, 22:00 to 07:00.
A kiosk at the top of a street that falls to the Bosphorus, with the NÖBET cooler beside it. Ten renders from one Blender model and one camera: the geometry never changes, only the light, the rain and who is still awake.
Compare two hours
Hour by hour
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22:00
The shift starts. A third of the windows are lit; the kiosk has just put the kettle on; the cobbles are dry.
22:00Vişne 80 mg · ≈ 20.6 mg at 08:00
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23:00
The last buses have gone down the hill. Windows start going dark from the top floors down.
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00:00
Midnight. The cloud comes in off the sea and the city's light turns it orange from underneath.
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01:00
First rain. The cobbles darken stone by stone, and the joints fill before the stones do.
01:00Limon & Zencefil 50 mg · ≈ 19.5 mg at 08:00
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02:00
It is raining properly now. Water stands where the street dips; the lamp is in every puddle.
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03:00
The dead hour. Five windows lit on the whole street, the pharmacy's E, the kiosk and the cooler.
03:00Kara Dut 40 mg · ≈ 20.6 mg at 08:00
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04:00
The rain eases off. The first taxis come back up the hill, and one courier.
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05:00
The blue hour. The bakery's ovens have gone on — its window is lit — and the street is a mirror.
05:00Nane & Misket Limonu 30 mg · ≈ 20.4 mg at 08:00
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06:00
The sky over the far shore warms. The street lamps are still on and already look tired.
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07:00
The sun comes up at the end of the street. The lamps go out. The shift is over; time to go home.
07:00Kayısı & Ihlamur 0 mg · no caffeine
How it was made
A model of a place, not a picture of one.
Every building, lamp, cobble and can on the corner is in one Blender scene at real size, and the ten hours are ten lightings of it — sun and sky, cloud cover, how many windows are lit, how wet the stones are — rendered from one camera. That is what lets the home page blend one hour into the next without anything doubling.
Some things were made, some checked. The cobbles are a photograph of Istanbul setts made seamless and laid on the street, and the water in their joints comes from the photograph's own dark lines. The scooter stands on its side stand with both tyres down. The cooler's cable ends in a plug, in a socket. The pharmacy that is on duty tonight has its lit E. The bakery's window comes on at five.
The rain on the home page is not in the renders. It is drawn in your browser, in four layers, each hidden behind whatever the scene's depth says is nearer — which is why it falls behind the kiosk and in front of the far shore.
