CG ArtistResearcher of light & mathematics
MonkChief priest, Ankokuin temple
Two ways of seeing · one inquiry
Duality
CG artist / researcher
A computer-graphics researcher and artist. Masaki builds his own software to explore how mathematics gives rise to form — fractals, periodic spaces, ray tracing — and presents what it discloses as art. Much of the research is published as open source.
Monk
Chief priest of Gyokusenzan Ankokuin, a Nichiren Buddhist temple. He teaches the Middle Way at the heart of Buddhism, free of excessive dogma or mystique, and opened Tachibana Gallery — a cultural hall for art and coffee — within the temple grounds.
Art is a new perspective.Science is a new perspective.Buddhism is a new perspective.I make them interchangeable.
Works
A fractal on the screen becomes a folding screen, then a dress. One formula appears in a temple and on a runway.
In the media
Profiles in the Asahi and Yomiuri newspapers; features in Gekkan Jushoku, Sanpo no Tatsujin and Merveille; TV Tokyo’s Nandemo Kanteidan and more.
Research
From the rendering of scattered light to the visualisation of blazar data, 3D apparel modelling and interpolation on the sphere.
