The artist studied art at the University of Florida, where he developed the three-dimensional technique that helped establish him as a street artist in New York.
Tony Tyson and David Wittman, who work at Lucent Technologies' Bell Laboratories, in New Jersey, and their collaborators have proposed building a telescope that estimates the distribution of mass in the past by analysing these deflected light-waves, a technique known as three-dimensional mass tomography.
The company's biggest worry is that someone will come up with a scanning technique that makes it possible to generate three-dimensional images without building models.