Psyche Inspired: Tommy Desjardins

Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology

Major: 3D Digital Design

Psyche Inspired Class: 2025-2026

Standing On Psyche

Tommy Desjardins

January 12th, 2026

Major: 3D Digital Design

Genre/Medium: 3D digital art displayed on a physical projector wall.

About the work:

Standing on Psyche invites visitors to step onto the surface of the distant metallic asteroid Psyche. Projected across a panoramic wall, visitors see the mission from an entirely new perspective. This interactive environment recreates Psyche’s rugged landscape and the orbiting spacecraft exploring it. The exhibit combines many working theories of what Psyche’s surface might look like. This artistic rendering of the asteroid shows a gravel-like regolith covering solid rocky ground. Craters from ancient impacts with other asteroids form steep valleys, and occasionally reveal bright patches of raw metal buried just beneath the rocky surface. Read more…

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Tommy Desjardins

February 20th, 2026

Major: 3D Digital Design

Genre/Medium: Unreal Engine, Projections/Physical room

About the Work: 

Standing on Psyche invites visitors to step onto the surface of the distant metallic asteroid Psyche. Projected across a panoramic wall, visitors see the mission from an entirely new perspective. This interactive environment recreates Psyche’s rugged landscape and the orbiting spacecraft exploring it. The exhibit combines many working theories of what Psyche’s surface might look like. This artistic rendering of the asteroid shows a gravel-like regolith covering solid rocky ground. Craters from ancient impacts with other asteroids form steep valleys, and occasionally reveal bright patches of raw metal buried just beneath the rocky surface. Read more…

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