High-Level Project Summary
This is a 2D digital art project showing Lucy and some Trojan asteroids.
Link to Project "Demo"
Link to Final Project
Detailed Project Description
Albert Einstein is credited as saying, "Imagination is more important than knowledge, for while knowledge defines everything we know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create."
My art project illustrates Lucy's epic journey as she drifts among the Trojan asteroids. She will take the knowledge of her many creators into the void, and she will return the wonders of the unknown to fire our imaginations again.
Images taken from NASA sources have been significantly modified in this project. All work is my own.
I used Pixlr X (https://pixlr.com/) as the main editing tool.
Space Agency Data
I modified NASA images of known asteroids (like Vesta, Ida, and others) by changing colors, shadows, size, and craters (added and removed) . I used a NASA image of Jupiter and added an aurora.
Hackathon Journey
I write and illustrate the Rocket Team books for kids, and this project allowed me to focus my energies in a different direction. I experimented with eight different images, all very different from each other.
The main challenge was in deciding if I wanted a photo-realistic image or an artistic rendering. I tried both and my insightful wife picked my submission.
I recognize that Jupiter is not to scale, and I struggled with even adding Jupiter. In the end, I took the artist's prerogative.
I also could not resist adding a pale blue dot in the sunlight.
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Tags
#art #lucy #jupiter #trojan #asteroid #probe