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Artwork sources
- The monarch uses a mesh adapted from the actual silhouette and markings in Didier Descouens’s photograph of a Muséum de Toulouse specimen. The isolated upper view was sampled as a mesh, shaded and articulated. Download the adapted mesh, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
- The portrait study uses Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery scans of two life masks of Abraham Lincoln, cast by Leonard Wells Volk in 1860 and Clark Mills in 1865. Both scans are CC0. The models were adapted for real-time ASCII rendering.
- The garden uses Animated Hovering Flying Hummingbird Loop by LasquetiSpice, licensed CC BY 4.0. The flight cycle and texture were adapted for the live 3D engraving.
- The horse’s stride references Eadweard Muybridge’s The Horse in Motion, held by the Library of Congress.
- Hummingbird at Flower in California by Mike’s Birds. Cropped, trimmed, muted, and converted to ASCII. The adaptation is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Spotted eagle rays swimming by by Masahiko Ohkubo. Trimmed, muted, and converted to ASCII under CC BY 2.0.
- The Lazarus study is an excerpt from Prince Abrahams’s Faith project, already featured in the portfolio. Cropped, trimmed, muted, and converted to ASCII.
- Monarch butterfly 2 by Truem (CC0).
- Monarch (Danaus plexippus) by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Conservation Training Center (public domain).
- Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo, Japan by Basile Morin (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- PotteryShaping by Raysonho (CC0).
- Narrow shuttle loom via Work With Sounds (CC BY 3.0).
- Moon Jellies Swimming by Eric Kilby (CC BY-SA 2.0).
- Waves crashing on rocks off Beach 4 by Joe Mabel (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- Raven Crosswind adapts the Crow mesh by Polyfork (CC BY 4.0). The flight pose was baked from the original rig, then the wings and tail were fitted to the scene’s animation. Wings, posture and bill also use flight references from the U.S. National Park Service: Raven Caught in Flight and Raven flying.
- The swimmer in Below the Mirror uses adapted MakeHuman anatomy (CC0) for the head, torso, and arms. The deforming tail uses the silhouette in Kindel Media’s underwater photograph under the Pexels license.
- The waterfall cliff uses the Mountainside photogrammetry scan by Dario Barresi and Rico Cilliers, Poly Haven (CC0). Its silhouette and surface tone were resampled for the scene.
- Moon Jelly Column uses the bell of Moon Jelly by Innerscene (CC0), with tone adapted for engraving and the model fitted to the pulsing animation.
- Field Made Visible uses the Horseshoe Magnet model from Grab3D (CC0). The magnet was separated from the included paper clips and fitted to the moving poles.
- Ring Shadow Transit uses the Mimas 3D Model by NASA Visualization Technology Applications and Development and the Saturn texture from NASA’s 3D Resources. Their surface tones were adapted for engraving.
- The moving shuttle in Woven Conversation was modeled with a hollow body and bobbin using the Smithsonian weaving shuttle as a reference.
- Mammoth Bones uses the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s woolly mammoth skeleton scan (CC0). The scan is fitted to a jointed walking study.
- Serpentine uses an excerpt of Crissie Sheridan (1897), filmed by William Heise, from the Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.
- Enchanted Drawing uses an excerpt of The Enchanted Drawing (1900), from the Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.
The installation combines 3D models and archival films. Other footage listed above was used for visual reference or earlier studies. The Faith film excerpts are available in the Faith project.
Selected footage
Selected 3D models and scans