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As an amateur astronomer/astrophotographer this is depressing.Everybody Wang Chung wrote: ↑Sat Apr 04, 2026 3:44 amI guess the residents of Cody can officially say goodbye to stargazing.
Mormons fetishize purity; it’s not surprising that they want to dot the world with gaudy white bright buildings to virtue signal that supposed righteousness to the heathens around them.Side note; I’m a 3D artist that’s been contracted to render temple interiors. These clowns have absolutely no visual or artistic taste.
I was told to not include any shadows in my interior renderings. I pushed back, but their feedback was based on some higher up giving a mandate to not “portray any darkness” in the temple.
Do you know what a rendering with no shadow looks like? Flat. Shadow is crucial to visually read form and depth. Without shadow you basically can’t perceive light. You can’t read the curvature of a seat cushion. You can’t even predictably read color. You have no dark to contrast with light. Suddenly the 100% lit room doesn’t look light. Just flat and dull and washed out.
I refuse to put the results in a portfolio because they look like a beginner 3d artist flooded the room with 100 light sources and had no taste.
This is just more of that. What’s beautiful? Architecture that enhances and takes in natural beauty around it. Let it fade into the night to draw attention to the beautiful starry night. Let the night emphasize and contrast against how beautiful the building is in a range of exterior lighting as diverse as all of nature’s incredible displays. Day, night, sunrise, overcast, full moon.
But no. Light that idiot day and night. Crank it up to 100. Let the no shadow police have their way based on a comment from the 12. Shut down artistic professionals that study this for a living because you know better.
The irony is staggering. This is basically the most Mormon approach you can have. Aligns perfectly with so many other aspects of life they love to ruin.
That’s my rant. Sorry to this town and all of our temple towns that lack local protections.
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/04/03 ... ent-happy/All the people living near the temple got a new perspective of it during the Tuesday night lighting test. Petit said the light shone through nearly every window in his home.
“All of the windows in this house, except for two, face that direction,” he said. “I'm not sure whether this is something you can get used to or not, especially during the winter. When it gets dark at 4:30 p.m., that light could be fairly disrupting.”
Sarah Frances McClure, another neighbor of the temple, took several photographs showing how the light beams into her home, including her bedroom.
“I sent those photos and a quote for blackout curtains to the Cody City Council,” she told Cowboy State Daily. “My house is surrounded by sunrooms, and they were all lit up by the temple.”
Petit, who was a member of Preserve Our Cody Neighborhoods, is trying to find as much grace as he can with the temple next door. However, he firmly believes what he was told about the temple’s lighting and its local impact was “incredibly misleading and disingenuous.”