Mnemonic comic for 日

Whenever a Pinyin initial is sufficient to represent the entire Pinyin syllable, we use the space station as the background scenery. As a reminder, here's the key how the tone maps to certain areas of a location:
Here's the key how to remember the tone of the Pinyin final:

1 -> in front
2 -> in the kitchen
3 -> in the living room
4 -> in the bathroom
5 -> on the roof

In this case, this is what the space station's bathroom actually more or less looks like. I downloaded a CAD drawing of the ISS from NASA, found the bathroom, rendered it in Blender (open source 3D software), and used the render as a basis for the final touches from Stable Diffusion (AI image generation software). Neat, huh?

Matthias, almost 3 years ago (edited almost 3 years ago)