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Submitted: July 23, 2012
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Cosmic Butterflyby *GrahamTG

Digital Art / 3-Dimensional Art / Scenes / Futuristic & Sci-Fi

The Cosmic Butterfly or Sun Craft.
Designed by Ernst Stuhlinger back in the mid 1950's to harness the power of the sun to generate power and thrust.
Details and interesting facts here [link]

Model by Nick Stevens aka Starbase1.
Jupiter map by Nick Stevens
Io by Bjorn Jonsson

Scene by me.

Going for a more ilustrated vibe.

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~beltminer Oct 3, 2012

beautiful work befitting the great man. ahh what might have been. really cool stuff man
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~Lee-Sherman Aug 11, 2012

An interesting well-arranged image. Why does Jupiter appear so oblate?

*GrahamTG Aug 12, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thanks.
Jupiter isn't a true Sphere it is an oblate spheroid.

*Deepblu742 Aug 5, 2012

This is awesome, what a unique real life design. Great render and presentation, I just feasted on the nice contrast of the ship and planet in high rezzie, superb!

*Arcas-Art Jul 24, 2012 Professional General Artist

Great stuff! Nice to see exploration of a fresh hardware concept like this.... and you made great use of your own background resource!

Man, four new posted works in one day?! Are you on holiday?

*GrahamTG Jul 24, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thanks, I'm really enjoying getting back into the sci fi side of things.
On holiday? Not quite, I've been laid off work so have a lot of spare time.

*Arcas-Art Jul 24, 2012 Professional General Artist

Ugh. Layoff. Sorry to hear it, my friend. If it's any minor consolation, I have too many skilled, brilliant (middle-aged) friends who recently met the same fate. Best of luck!!!