Current Student Collaborations Participants
View a list of the students, faculty, staff, and mentors currently involved in Psyche Student Collaborations.
/
Psyche Inspired – Iridium Class
Psyche Customization Station
Jessica Hall
April 30th, 2025
Major: New Media Design
Genre/Medium: 3D interactive web experience; Spline
About the work:
The Psyche Customization Station is an interactive web experience that renders a 3D Psyche spacecraft-inspired avatar live in your browser. The Psyche mission, from its conception, development, launch, and its creative programs like Psyche Inspired, has always been about discovery and creativity. I aimed to capture that personal touch with the Psyche Customization Station, and give users the chance to see themselves in Psyche.
With 6 expressions, 8 body and wing colors, 9 wing designs, and 7 hat options, there are literally thousands of possible combinations of unique avatars that can be made. Additionally, the UI can be toggled on and off to allow users to save clean images of their creations. The customization station was built in Spline, a program with the capability of rendering 3D live in a web browser.
Psyche Inspired Overview
Psyche Inspired is a program that brings undergraduate students from any discipline or major together to share the excitement, innovation, and scientific and engineering content of NASA’s Psyche mission with the public in new ways through artistic and creative works. These works are posted in the gallery above and highlighted on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. View the full resolution images in the image gallery. This year’s Psyche Inspired cohort is known as the Iridium Class.
Psyche Inspired was piloted at ASU during the 2017-2018 academic year. The following academic year, Psyche Inspired expanded nationally! The works from each Psyche Inspired cohort are collected in individual downloadable books that tell the story of Psyche through musical scores, sculptures, painting, 3-D models, photography, acrylic art, needlepoint, stop-motion films, mixed media, and more.
Click here to view all the Psyche Inspired books
Take a look at our comprehensive map that shows how the Psyche Inspired program has grown over the years!
