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Actually pretty amazing, artwork and technology! So how exactly does it work? The art couldn't have been done in a JS canvas, could it? I imagine it's just a re

by mohs3n 13y ago

Actually pretty amazing, artwork and technology! So how exactly does it work? The art couldn't have been done in a JS canvas, could it? I imagine it's just a really high resolution image that gets zoomed into and looped back? That's actually hard to understand too...

alexwright 13y ago
I dunno about everyone else, but on this 24" Dell IPS I can see the next image being loaded and then scaled, does it every few seconds. The details starts getting a bit blurry them pop, new asset super imposed and we start scaling.
manmal 13y ago
It's certainly not a single image, you can see how the content gets blurred at the edges. It's similar to the kind of image you get when you point a camera at a TV and display the picture on the same TV. It looks like infinity, but actually you just have a rectangle in every picture through which you can "look" at the same picture, which in turn has another rectangle etc. In zoomquilt, it's not rectangles, but more complex (vector-drawn?) shapes which let you see through each image to next. Similar to a card stack where every card has a hole, and the last card is also the one before the first.
vidarh 13y ago
It's a series of images at different zoom levels. Since there's no freedom of movement, you "just" need to leave a section in the centre empty, have someone draw a large image for that section, copy in a scaled down version of that image. When displaying it, once you've zoomed in a certain amount, you simply start copying in the next image in the series suitably scaled down, and keep zooming until that image fills the screen, and fill in the next level in, and so on. Roughly. Repeat for as long as you have images, and optionally make it look nicely back to the beginning as they've done here. It's nicely done, but technically very simple - "infinite zooms" like this dates back to the early days of the demo scene at least, so at least early 80's (and it wouldn't surprise me if people have done it with "manual" animations before that).
- baumgarn 13y ago
  Have a look at 'Powers of Ten' by Ray & Charles Eames (1977) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0

by mohs3n 13y ago

alexwright 13y ago

I dunno about everyone else, but on this 24" Dell IPS I can see the next image being loaded and then scaled, does it every few seconds. The details starts getting a bit blurry them pop, new asset super imposed and we start scaling.

manmal 13y ago

It's certainly not a single image, you can see how the content gets blurred at the edges. It's similar to the kind of image you get when you point a camera at a TV and display the picture on the same TV. It looks like infinity, but actually you just have a rectangle in every picture through which you can "look" at the same picture, which in turn has another rectangle etc. In zoomquilt, it's not rectangles, but more complex (vector-drawn?) shapes which let you see through each image to next. Similar to a card stack where every card has a hole, and the last card is also the one before the first.

vidarh 13y ago

It's a series of images at different zoom levels. Since there's no freedom of movement, you "just" need to leave a section in the centre empty, have someone draw a large image for that section, copy in a scaled down version of that image. When displaying it, once you've zoomed in a certain amount, you simply start copying in the next image in the series suitably scaled down, and keep zooming until that image fills the screen, and fill in the next level in, and so on. Roughly. Repeat for as long as you have images, and optionally make it look nicely back to the beginning as they've done here. It's nicely done, but technically very simple - "infinite zooms" like this dates back to the early days of the demo scene at least, so at least early 80's (and it wouldn't surprise me if people have done it with "manual" animations before that).

baumgarn 13y ago
Have a look at 'Powers of Ten' by Ray & Charles Eames (1977) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0