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Zoomquilt (2004)
- dang 6y agoIf curious see also 2013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6542450 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6542450
- codazoda 6y agoGood find. Answers my initial question, "How was this done?"
- bowmessage 6y agoDid anyone else think, before clicking, that this would be a service to order a quilt in which each square is a friend or family member's picture of them as if they were on a 'Zoom' call?
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- qtXJ9EM 6y agoWas thinking exactly that.
- ShakataGaNai 6y agoI was thinking more of some sort of web-based quilt of zoom calls.... or something? I dunno. But certainly something zoom.us related versus what we actually saw.
- vultour 6y agoI misread it as Zoom Quit and thought it’s going to be the monthly Zoom bashing thread.
- cvhashim 6y agoNow there’s an idea...
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- randomdata 6y agoI am a still anticipating that if I wait long enough the pixels will enlarge into a grid of zoom.us camera feeds.
- allenu 6y agoExactly what I thought I would see.
- itslennysfault 6y agoI was thinking a plugin to make the grid of people on zoom look like a quilt. Then, I thought maybe it's a thing where a bunch of people get together and make a quilt together over zoom. I was certain it was going to involve Zoom though. I was wrong.
- blackandise 6y agoI thought it was creative backgrounds for Zoom.
- bsg75 6y agoYes, then upon clicking it my next thought was how to make this my Zoom background.
- newfeatureok 6y agoIf you like this and like Three Body Problem I'd check this out (droplet video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QYwGIdYm2w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QYwGIdYm2w
- nafey 6y agoReally nice video. Captures the essence and the terrible beauty of the franchise.
- Exuma 6y agoDamn this brings back serious memories from like 2008 when I first saw this
- ogre_codes 6y agoNext someone is going to post Badgers Badgers Badgers.
- jaredsohn 6y agoThat's a lot older and I personally just watched that in the last week when archive.org added flash animations. https://gizmodo.com/internet-archive-brings-flash-games-and-animation-to-it-1845723903?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=dlvrit&utm_content=gizmodo&fbclid=IwAR0dt1cm-E_xEC1jJpucR-EbhESz0PW3_m8brLi44e2CDEK-n3JDBjoka_M https://gizmodo.com/internet-archive-brings-flash-games-and-...
- justarandomq 6y agoThis would be awesome in one of those monitors that look like a hanging picture frame Extra awesome if it was infinite or procedurally generated using style transfer GANs or something to showcase different types of art. Even extra awesomer with the ability to zoom in more than one point
- pmayrgundter 6y agoDig!
- tgb 6y agoThis reminds me aesthetically of the game Gorogoa. It's beautiful and only takes a few hours to complete, so I highly recommend it. [1] http://gorogoa.com/ http://gorogoa.com/
- dannykwells 6y agoI love this game! Great rec.
- p1mrx 6y agoIn terms of spatial geometry, it's more similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold_Garden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold_Garden.
- cconcepts 6y agoWhoa! That is bizarrely addictive. Quick, someone reformat the newsfeed to deliver images from my friends in this format for greatly increased engagement. Call it Insta-Trance. Pop up ad every 30 seconds has your revenue needs covered.
- zem 6y agolooks wonderful, though the experience seems more like moving through a world than infinitely zooming (i.e. what feels like it's changing is the camera position rather than the scale)
- smaili 6y agoDoes it end?
- karaterobot 6y agoIt loops after several of those paintings, or about 5 minutes
- miguelmota 6y agoIt loops back around
- maxk42 6y agoNo, but you can press the up key to make it not end sooner. You can also press the down key to zoom back out forever.
- mihau 6y agoSee also 2nd version: http://zoomquilt2.com/ http://zoomquilt2.com/
- nathancahill 6y agoInteresting. The 1st version gets a cool 60 FPS on Firefox, while the 2nd version gets 30 FPS. Much less smooth. They both get 60 FPS in Chrome.
- snazz 6y agoBoth perfectly smooth in Safari, although the second one seems to be higher-resolution to my eye.
- rurounijones 6y agoFirefox on windws - The first one was smooth a silk, the second, not even 30fps. more like 10.
- keenmaster 6y agoIt would be great if Google Earth and Google Street View zoomed like that in any direction.
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- GuB-42 6y agoYour screen is now shrinking... Anyways, great job!
- jturpin 6y agoHere's something - does anyone else's brain try to tell them that the trees are 3D? That's certainly a cool optical illusion!
- codazoda 6y agoAfter watching this all the way through my mind wanted to push my screen around after I closed the tab. Almost like Hacker News was going away from me or something. It was a bit trippy. Just me?
- laslkjasdfl 6y agoi felt exactly the same sensation.
- scrozier 6y agoYep.
- adam12 6y agoI freaked out as a kid after playing River Raid on the Atari for hours.
- autarch 6y agoIt's happening to me right now.
- pierrec 6y agoMotion aftereffect! The most extreme version of this effect I've ever seen is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzSRVgF501M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzSRVgF501M
- gibolt 6y agoTrees outside were moving in the wind. Wasn't clear to me when the effect stopped... This is crazy. Feels like it was revealed that my brain is no different than the AIs creating trippy art that Google made a while back. They just had a longer stare
- michaelcampbell 6y agoI used to get this as a kid mowing the lawn on a riding mower. After a couple hours, when you get off the mower the whole world seems like it's receding from you slowly.
- FpUser 6y agoSomething of the same nature but with video: https://youtu.be/uy_NJjRT3zk https://youtu.be/uy_NJjRT3zk I am a visual junkie and have long known about things like Zoomquilt, Zoomquilt like going through Oz, music visualizers etc
- neutrinoq 6y agoSomething similar to this, "Visual Meditation": https://mesmerizeapp.com/ https://mesmerizeapp.com/
- jancsika 6y agoIs there enough precision in a double for this to be formatted as an SVG?
- lotyrin 6y agoI thought SVG was arbitrary precision before reading this comment. Reading now, it seems like you aren't guaranteed any more than single precision.
- echelon 6y agoThis has been around forever. It's still gorgeous, but the jpeg artifacts and compression demanded at the time definitely show. Someone should change the title to (2004).
- dang 6y agoFrom https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6542450 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6542450 this version dates to 2013, but I think 2004 is probably fair. I wonder if the Internet Archive has the Flash version somewhere...
- dec0dedab0de 6y agoI think this was a flash animation about 15 years ago. I seem to remember it working much better as flash. Either way it's awesome.
- jonplackett 6y agoIt’s the kind of thing that would have taken < an hour in flash and ages in JavaScript. I know because I’ve tried both.
- ehsankia 6y agoFrom what I can see, it's literally just frames growing and the new frame being places at the right place and time. It's honestly impressive how smooth and seemless it is for a bunch of images being placed and zoomed
- baumgarn 6y agoI created this project back in 2004 together with a bunch of other illustrators. It grew out of a community where people collaborated on artwork over the internet. Happy to see it continues to gather interest. You might also enjoy http://zoomquilt2.com http://zoomquilt2.com (2007) and http://arkadia.xyz http://arkadia.xyz (2015, my favourite)
- sebmellen 6y agoAmazing stuff! How did you do the scaling back in 2004? I can only picture doing this with a modern JS stack, but I suppose I'm a spoiled web developer in that way.
- baumgarn 6y agoThe original wasn't done with code but animated with Macromedia Director and later ported to Flash. The smooth full window HTML5 version you see here I coded in 2013
- eindiran 6y agoThe original one uses a red ribbon throughout the zoom; is there a reason why that helps visually maintain the illusion? Is it just a stylistic choice? The second one doesn't contain a static object that travels with the camera in the frame at all times, and the zooming in effect is still visually compelling, so it doesn't seem necessary. But I really liked the constant ribbon in the first. Also, who did the art for them? Was it a team effort or just a single person? [EDIT] It looks like Arcadia also has a sort of ribbon effect, though it is more subtle than the single, same color ribbon in the original.
- baumgarn 6y agoZoomquilt 1+2 was done by a bunch of illustrators. A person would paint a single frame, which would be scaled down and given to another person to continue painting around while blending into the previous frame. The picture would develop much like the Cadavre Exquis surrealist drawing game, and part of the fun is to continue and transform what the person before you left. Arkadia I painted together with my friend Sophia Schomberg.
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- cunidev 6y agoIt is sad how I intuitively felt the urge to scroll to see if I could zoom in quicker. I think the Web is getting us too used to quick scrolling and just short glimpses of artworks, places or articles, and unable to stop even for a couple of minutes to try to explore the essence of some art and get absorbed by it. Apologies for making what may sound like the average "edgy teen" comment, but is exactly what I felt in this case.
- baumgarn 6y agoYou can use the arrow keys to zoom faster
- syx 6y agoI feel this comment a lot. The art work was just amazing but the urge to go all the way down was higher.
- jcims 6y agoI feel this when I watch tv shows and movies from the 70's and 80's And SNL, but that's another story.
- aasasd 6y agoI'm watching plenty of old movies and series in the past couple years, and I usually switch the speed to 1.08 to 1.15 in VLC. That works wonders with stuff from the 60-70-80s.
- dbtc 6y agoBut we are still very much absorbed by something, it's just that the individual pieces are blended together into this new thing: The web, or The Scroll. If you're interested in a more rigorous/academical take on this stuff I recommend checking out Marshall Mcluhan (There are some clips on the YouTube) He wrote about TV in the 60s but his ideas are startlingly relevant and provoking.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoQuicker? I would've liked it to go slower so I could actually take in the artwork. Mind you I never tried the keyboard, I too have gotten used to things like tutorials and on-screen instructions.
- jonplackett 6y agoAn oldie but a goodie
- justinzollars 6y agothats wild
- justarandomq 6y agoDefinitely getting some Powers of Ten vibe to it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0
- duderific 6y agoI remember the Guns n Roses spin-off band Velvet Revolver had a cool Flash site around then that had a similar navigation effect. When you clicked something it would zoom in to that part of the site. It blew my mind when I ran across it back then.
- mfgs 6y agoDefinitely putting this on the projector next time I have a party.
- jishiav042 6y agoHahah, that's a good idea.
- AussieWog93 6y agoI have never seen a more phallic fish in my life...
- testxyz 6y agoThanks
- testxyz 6y agoThis looks interesting.
- paul7986 6y agoI StumbledUpon(.com) this in 2005/2006 when I was excited about learning how to code and create on the Internet. I need to create again, but got beat up along the way.
- jaimex2 6y agoI want this as a screensaver!
- piyushpr134 6y agohow does it work ?
- devin 6y agoThis takes me back. Thanks fir the memories.
- hawktheslayer 6y agoWow even with my now poorly trained attention span I couldn't peel away. Very impressive! I would long to see a whole story told in this way.
- idolaspecus 6y agoIf I stare directly at the center of the screen for a bit, say 10 seconds, then look somewhere else, my field of view appears to be flowing towards wherever I'm looking. I am surprised that this happens after such a short period, and am not sure why my brain "corrects" for the zoom effect. I guess maybe it could be because my vision tells me I'm moving, but my body tells me I'm not.
- Vaslo 6y agoHypnotic
- erickhill 6y agoWow. When I came back to HN after watching the entire loop, my browser was totally throbbing like a waning acid trip.
- tonetheman 6y agoThat is wonderful.
- actondev 6y agoEscher love! amazing work
- envolt 6y agoMy normal screen looks weird (opposite to zoomquilt; everything is zooming out from the edges). Is that normal?
- bitwize 6y agoI remember this. Because the images get more frightening as you zoom in, I thought it was going to be a shock site.