Tomographies *

Botticelli paints a scene from Greek mythology and brings it to his present, roughly 2000 years ahead. The flora and fauna, the gods and goddesses, their postures and gestures, analyzed ad nauseam by painters, historians, philosophers, botanists, and even tourists alike. Crawling through social media today we see its new lives; t-shirts, pendants, tapestries; TikTok reels, Instagram stories all. The 500-year-old artifact opens up in contemporary ways: evergreen, alive, and vivid. Zephyrus exhales, Chloris transforms, Flora spreads flowers. A hyperabundance of ideals of beauty, visions of heaven; an eternal spring.But what if we turn our contemporary visioning methods to this centuries-old artifact? To unfold it in ways we didn't know how to see until now? Fourier transformers decompose foliage textures into frequency domain representations, isolating periodic patterns across spatial scales, while Canny edge detection applies Gaussian smoothing and gradient magnitude computation to identify botanical contours. Gabor filters tuned to specific orientations and frequencies capture the directional preferences of leaf structures and textile folds, and local binary patterns (LBP) encode micro-textural features through pixel-intensity comparisons within circular neighborhoods. HSV and Lab color spaces facilitate chromatic-luminance separation, enabling independent analysis of hue, saturation, and lightness. Monocular depth estimation models, pre-trained on RGB-D imagery, predict depth-like representations from single-view inputs, inferring spatial arrangements across the pictorial plane. We can train our senses and their augmentations to see through these dimensions: we can discretise the smooth 2d plane of the painting and extract the coordinates of each flower. We can identify the names of each flower that we know to be real and invent them for the ones we dont. A logistically labeled document appears; the wunderkammer of the tuscan spring. Symbols upon symbols, stories upon stories, nested, rendered, screened affectively, adding resolutions both quantitatively and qualitatively. These can then be used to construct a large text prompt, and a large image prompt. A new spring appears, logistically, analytically, synthetically.