Tom Van Sant

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1980  "REFLECTIONS FROM EARTH":  the world's largest man-made image, commissioned by The Los Angeles Bicentennial Commission, carried out in cooperation with NASA, US Geological Survey, City of Los Angeles  Survey and Earth Resources Satellite Data Processing Center.  Size: 1.4 miles. Special assistance from Dr. William E. Evans, staff scientist, Stanford Research Institute

         
         
         

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1981 "RYAN'S EYE":  the world's smallest man-made image, carried out in cooperation with the National Center for Sub-Micron Studies, Cornell University.  Size: 250nm (1/4 micron).  Scanning electron microscope under the direction of Dr. Michael Isaacson

   
     

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1986 "EYES ON EARTH FROM SPACE":  a real-time zoom from GOES-6 Satellite stationed 22,000 miles from the Earth, to the surface of the Earth, at the corner of Melrose and San Vicente Boulevards. Commissioned by  the Los Angeles Pacific Design Center and the Formica Corporation, in cooperation with NASA, U.S. Geological Survey and Earth Resources Satellite Data Processing Center

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