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Image of the Day · 2026-08-21

The Beam Is the Drawing

The beam is the drawing: source and receiver are only the instruments that let the light write its straight line across the void

Artistic imagining, not existing hardware: a deep-space scene in the Moholy-Nagy idiom, with overlapping translucent amber-gold circles and planes forming a solar collector at upper left, a bright cyan-white diagonal laser beam crossing the black starfield to a dark geometric asteroid mining outpost at lower right, where a glowing circular receiver dish catches the light. No black outlines; all edges come from translucent overlap.
An artistic imagining, not existing hardware: across the deep-space dark, a solar collector throws one straight laser line to a small mining outpost on a dark asteroid, where a circular receiver catches it like a period at the end of a sentence. Rendered as a Moholy-Nagy optical experiment in transparent overlapping planes. Image: poweringspace.com. Artistic imagining.
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