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M A S T E R - U N I V E R S E - C A N V A S - P R I N T S


Following on from the commission I worked on for the Urantia Foundation back in 2002, the image is a much more detailed overview that combines all the info shown in those four images into a map of the “Master Universe”.

Effectively this maps illustrates how the Urantia Book describes the organisation of the entire creation in top and side profile, with some other info about worlds.

This piece took quite a long time to complete, not to mention the extended period of time where I intended to work on it, but was a little unsure of the correct distances and geographical positions of things. I relied heavily with the online resources to get these numbers and details right, so thank you to everybody who contributes to these!

The image itself is enormous:

FInal dimensions 21000 pixels wide (shown here at 8,4%!)
All text is vector so it can be translated or amended
It is intended to be printed potentially *very large* and to visualise some of the more complex concepts in the book.

I think the image took about 200 hours of organising, painting and research – using about 4GB of memory while I painted and the saved files are 400MB in size.

I am not sure what is going to be done about prints of this piece – so many people contact me about the original 4 (which have still to be released by the UF as prints) – I may organise some limited edition canvas runs of this piece in the near future.

Book info is here for those interested:
www.urantia.org

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Comments: 257

Neok4 [2009-07-21 00:58:45 +0000 UTC]

Awesome. Looks great. I love stuff like this.

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BLTsalade In reply to ??? [2009-07-21 00:37:53 +0000 UTC]

cool

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DeepChrome [2009-07-20 23:56:40 +0000 UTC]

Gorgeous. I love the cosmic, deep-unknown-space vibe going on in all this. The colors also appeal to me a lot as I'm a sucker for blues, purples, bright magentas, and so on.

I also can't believe you spent 200 hours on this, but the quality of this shows that effort really paid off.

I'd love a wallpaper of this for my computer too.

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kuro-mai In reply to ??? [2009-07-20 23:55:24 +0000 UTC]

fascinating!

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Jetrunner [2009-07-20 23:42:07 +0000 UTC]

Wow this is cool, I wish I could see all the details in full size, and read all of the text.

It seems to me like you go for "cool" colors in most of your space work. Is there a reason for that? Something beyond "space is cold"?

A lot of NASA pictures seem to have dim blues and browns, but experimenting with color is fun.

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Yaiden In reply to ??? [2009-07-20 23:06:31 +0000 UTC]

i love this
congratulations!!!

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BlackHuntersMoon In reply to ??? [2009-07-20 22:39:16 +0000 UTC]

This is amazing work. I can't believe you spent 200 hours on this. But the results are amazing.

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billndrsn In reply to ??? [2009-07-20 22:36:04 +0000 UTC]

Truly Great Art...

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pixelbudah In reply to ??? [2009-07-20 21:53:05 +0000 UTC]

this is just amazing I LOVE IT !!!

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MythArcana In reply to ??? [2009-07-20 21:38:31 +0000 UTC]

Definitely one beautiful piece of artwork and it's very intricate and laid out perfectly! That is certainly one detailed piece and I'm once again impressed!

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PublicSecrecy [2009-07-20 21:10:49 +0000 UTC]

Unbelievably amazing man; really, one of the most stunning things I've seen on DA. Will you be making available a slightly higher-res (even only 25% scale?) download option?

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Cloister [2009-07-20 19:47:34 +0000 UTC]

Looks like a very good job done! Impressive!

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EnzuDes1gn [2009-07-20 19:23:45 +0000 UTC]

very nice work indeed man

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AurelTristen In reply to ??? [2009-07-20 18:55:45 +0000 UTC]

Great work! I read into the book it comes from, and its a very large steaming pile of BS, but this artwork is superb! I'd love to see it at full resolution!

Thanks for sharing!

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jdlr64 [2009-07-20 18:22:46 +0000 UTC]

WOW! Very beautiful.

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Infinite705 [2009-07-20 17:54:04 +0000 UTC]

gorgeous work

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astrovista [2009-07-20 17:37:58 +0000 UTC]

Haha, what if the universe would look like that! Reminds me of that pyramid of society classes.

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StefanHuerlemann [2009-07-20 17:35:17 +0000 UTC]

awesome!!!
which font did u use in the map`?

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SerpitaX In reply to ??? [2009-07-20 17:35:00 +0000 UTC]

Very detailed, and it most definitely is time well-spent.

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wulfnstein In reply to ??? [2009-07-20 17:29:08 +0000 UTC]

12000pixels wide? and this is at 13% whowho that's one big image

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DeathChronx [2009-07-20 17:17:41 +0000 UTC]

This is so amazing I don't even know what to type. It's so beautiful, more especially since I love space. very interesting, even time I look I want to know more.

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Mythee In reply to DeathChronx [2009-07-21 17:56:21 +0000 UTC]

It's fictional though. Real space is VERY different from this.
I love space too, I have oodles of wallpapers and magazines about it~ xDD So it kind of saddens me if people think that the only way the universe could be beautiful is if they organized it into something geometrical and impossible. o-o;;

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darkdoomer In reply to ??? [2009-07-20 17:08:10 +0000 UTC]

Hey i went there last week, if i knew you'd realase a map it'd been helpful.
good job again, that's amazing!

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d-anarchist [2009-07-20 16:56:53 +0000 UTC]

WOW, this is intense, im not even sure i know what to think of it yet

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ErikShoemaker [2009-07-20 16:24:50 +0000 UTC]

awesome!

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pixelisedmind [2009-07-20 16:24:09 +0000 UTC]

Wonderful.

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AlexSatriani [2009-07-20 16:15:28 +0000 UTC]

bravo, thats ultra mega amazing work, you deserve a DD :]

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dragon-guard [2009-07-20 16:10:13 +0000 UTC]

AMAZING! Beautiful work!

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Cometstarz [2009-07-20 16:08:28 +0000 UTC]

[link] .
THIS IS AMAZING!

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jaxko [2009-07-20 15:52:27 +0000 UTC]

holy shit, very impressive job man!

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kaolincash In reply to ??? [2009-07-20 15:51:44 +0000 UTC]

You're insane.
Absolutely insane.
Nobody sane could create something that neurotically intricate!

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Onihikage In reply to ??? [2009-07-20 15:49:21 +0000 UTC]

Unbelievable. You must have an insanely powerful computer to have pulled this off!

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Ratchet-5510 In reply to ??? [2009-07-20 15:42:50 +0000 UTC]

WOW

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Vibratum [2009-07-20 15:24:09 +0000 UTC]

Wonderful work, I really like the Urantia Book !

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Callyzah [2009-07-20 15:23:52 +0000 UTC]

Yeeeeey!!! Fantastic stelar map!!!!^^
mmm... now I just need a spaceship^^

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MurilloDesign In reply to ??? [2009-07-20 15:21:14 +0000 UTC]

insanity

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Ron-zo In reply to ??? [2009-07-20 15:07:11 +0000 UTC]

Best Map EVERRRRR!

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ErikVonLehmann In reply to ??? [2009-07-20 15:07:03 +0000 UTC]

awesome man.

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ZuluSplitter In reply to ??? [2009-07-20 15:06:02 +0000 UTC]

uncredible gary... so awsome...

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ANTIFAN-REAL In reply to ZuluSplitter [2009-10-20 13:15:56 +0000 UTC]

Thanks man

G x

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thiagoklafke In reply to ??? [2009-07-20 15:05:37 +0000 UTC]

This is really awesome!

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Camille-Besneville In reply to ??? [2009-07-20 15:05:36 +0000 UTC]

Amazing work as always !

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PhobosKE In reply to ??? [2009-07-20 15:05:32 +0000 UTC]

thats just awesome I love the way how you paint the space

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Hunter-Wolf [2009-07-20 15:05:13 +0000 UTC]

Wow .. Painting a universe !!! ... now that's something you don't see every day ... impressive job indeed ... i'm in awe

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VaKonS [2009-07-20 15:02:21 +0000 UTC]

It's beautiful! )

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Timsalcove [2009-07-20 14:53:16 +0000 UTC]

This is gorgeous. I can't imagine how much time you spent on it. I always admire an artist who takes time and puts a lot of passion and sweat into one, beautiful image. Really mind-boggling. Keep up the great work.

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Smaragdia [2009-07-20 14:52:28 +0000 UTC]

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Chromattix In reply to ??? [2009-07-20 14:51:34 +0000 UTC]

I'd be lying if I said I understood all of the diagrams but it's a creative way of mapping a fictional universe, and well illustrated too

Ahh, a nice last-second surprise just before I was gonna log out and go to bed too

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MoonlitCrescent In reply to ??? [2009-07-20 14:51:07 +0000 UTC]

I would LOVE to have this as 1900x1200 wallpaper, it's a brilliant piece of work. Well done!

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cyberoidx In reply to MoonlitCrescent [2009-07-20 17:27:07 +0000 UTC]

Me too, 1680 X 1050 though

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