Popular Science featured Prueitt's techniques and images, and the rest is history. The artistic works that emerged from Prueitt's machines reflected a new way of generating art. I think of what I'd like to create and have the computer create it. If I can conceive of something, I can have the computer do it. The pleasing result, a tribute to the 3-D world we perceive and inhabit, relies on form, color, shadow and reflection, all processed through the lens of graphics programs Prueitt himself has designed.
Pictures appear abstract, even surreal, depicting objects unknown to the natural world.
At the same time, the 3-D shapes, lighting, and shadow imbue the images with a sense of reality, comforting to the psyche and restful to the eyes. Ever the scientist, Prueitt has, over the years, tapped his knowledge of disciplines from biology to engineering to refine his techniques. He then selects the variation he deems best, repeating the process until a work of art is born. And so he does. His collected digital works, featured in the national press and even in Star Trek I, II, and III, have created beauty for as many as 500 million pairs of eyes.