Elementary…

Brian is working a textbook and wanted an updated version of the Five Elements and Platonic Solids.

Here’s the original:

I was trying to figure out what I could do with them and decided that I would try to make it look like the elements are inside the shapes which themselves would appear three-dimensional, solid, yet transparent.

Shelley asked me, “How are you going to do THAT?”

“I dunno”, I says.

Here’s how it turned out:

And here’s what Brian had to say on his CAF page:

“Kepler’s Elements”