Minecraft Project - Cathedral #12

This might be proof that I am completely obsessed with the cathedral build. I started working a bit on the interiors, specifically the parts under the roof where I thought some offices might be. Not that the outside is done... I just wanted to change gears a bit. One of the things that was bugging me was the enormous amount of head space towards the peaks of the roofs. It was just visually really boring. I went to bed then woke up at about 2 am and had an idea. It is something i've never really seen done in Minecraft, though I am pretty sure that someone MUST have done it. In Minecraft, a typical way of building a roof is to place a series of stairs of some sort in a row and it forms a bit of a roof shape. Also, people will put upside down stairs on the under side of the roof to fill in gaps. Because there are no real "physics" to the things you build they done really REQUIRE supports. In fact they can be left hanging in the air. The idea I had was to fill that empty space with something that would approximate the structure that would really be supporting a roof in real life. This tends to lend a bit of "realism" to the build, but I also think it feels intuitively more natural and is a lot more visually interesting. I thought about it for about ten minutes, and then decided I was probably not going to sleep until I actually tried out the idea. So here it is! I'm actually quite please with the end product and am curious whether I will find other builders have done something similar. I thing it works in this space because it is so large. Something like this would simply not fit into a smaller building because the dimensions of all blocks in Minecraft are 1 meter square (about 3 feet square for my metric system challenged American audience). For a smaller space this would really clutter up the space if built to scale. In fact rafters are generally closer together than one meter, so the roof would be nothing but rafter. But at this scale I can "cheat" the spacing but still get the effect I am looking for.