VisionForge Project Discovering the Heavens
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		Special colorized and framed version of "Discoverying the Heavens"

The Discovering the Heavens Project started with a 540x549 pixel black & white scan of the 16th Century Woodcut of that title. It has now been rendered into several colorful scenes, some of them unexpected and unique. See below to witness the evolution of this wonderful piece of art. (We continue to invite submissions.)

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Original woodcut Discovering the Heavens Anonymous 16th Century (a black & white jpeg file)	#1 Discovering the Heavens Digital color rendering Tobin James Mueller 10/10/98	#2 Discovering the Heavens Colored pencil drawing Judy Sandel 10/29/98
#3a Bryce sphere of Version #1 Crystal Ball Ian Brand 12/1/98	#3b Discovery Beneath the Heavens Bryce/Poser rendering Ian Brand 12/7/98	#4 Reflections of Heaven Poser/Photoshop rendering (using "Crystal Ball" as pupil) Tao Toy Takai 12/11/98
#5 Beyond Negativeland Paintshop Pro airbrush & solarization Danielle Lester 1/9/99	#6 Looking Out from a Rose Colored World Bryce 3D rendering (using woodcut b&w as terrain map) Danielle Lester 1/9/99	#7 Heavenly Earth Tones Paintshop Pro airbrush & hot wax effects Danielle Lester 1/9/99
#8 Fractal Planet KPT5/Photoshop rendering (using shepherd boy from #7) Tobin James Mueller 1/11/99	Fractals used for #8 F1 formed from #5 F2 formed from #7 F3 F1 + F2 = F3 Fractals by Tobin James Mueller 1/11/99	#9 Wheels Within Wheels KPT5 rendering of Version #9 (using "Heavenly Earth Tone" #7) Tobin James Mueller 1/11/99
#10 Discovery Island Bryce 3D (using original woodcut to map texture for stone slabs) Danielle Lester 1/13/99	#11 Discovering the Cosmos digital art (using original woodcut as pure inspiration) Gwen Lewis 3/6/99	#12 The Progression of Metaphysical Discovery (using Tobin's colorization as a background) Eric Nesmith 3/23/99
#13 Infinite Heaven Paint Shop Pro and Kai's Power Tools Tamara Dourney 8/1/99	#14 Dreams of Discovery alteration to #3b for The Power of 10 Tobin James Mueller 8/16/99	#15 Heavenly Sphere animated gif Steven Acworth 12/12/01

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