The Zoomquilt II, a 2007 sequel to the jarring Zoomquilt of 2004, is an even more hypnotic Flash zoom-through collaborative painting with bits from more than 30 different artists. Zoomquilt 2 (via @Chris_Carter)
Zoomquilt II: Flash zoom-through painting
The Zoomquilt II, a 2007 sequel to the jarring Zoomquilt of 2004, is an even more hypnotic Flash zoom-through collaborative painting with bits from more than 30 different artists. Zoomquilt 2 (via @Chris_Carter)
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Of course, after staring deeply into the Zoomquilt for a while, once you look away your field of vision seems to be zooming in the other direction. Classic perceptual trick; the brain gets used to tracking constant motion in one direction and subtracting it out, and continues subtracting for a little while even when the motion stops.
#1:
I get the same effect after playing a few rounds of guitar hero. :D
I'm stoned, thanks for this.
Wow. I thought the first one was good - thanks for posting this treat. I think my brain fell out.
Seems like a quality-over-quantity version of Gridcosm (http://www.sito.org/cgi-bin/gridcosm/gridcosm?level=top), which has been around since 1997- practically an eternity in internet time.
I watched for several minutes, then when I returned to BoingBoing, all the text and images were slowly receding!
The ZoomCosm:
http://murderdeathkitty.net/output/zoomcosm/
This takes the Gridcosm images and animates them!
i don't know why they have made this so bleeding small... but anyway - - the master of zoom:
http://www.ist-one.com/Zoom/Nickelodeon.html
I watched this for 3 hours before I realized that it was a infinite self-referential microcosm.
That's 94 seconds I'll never get back...
Hmm... longer than the first one, but not as good. The transitions aren't as intriguing. And I miss the ribbon.
My mind... is melting....
I thought it was awesome, but the screensaver is a waste of time - super jerky and seems to eat up processing power.
that Nickelodeon one is pretty awesome
Can anybody (easily) tell me how they did this? I have quite a bit of experience with Flash, but have not been able to figure out how to make a movie perpetually zoom into itself. Any tips would be great!
oh man, there's a perspective change from landscape to over head! wish they'd explored it for a while instead of guiding it back.
Zoomquilt & zoomquilt2 are awesome, but I think the Tin Man "Infinite Oz" zoom beats them both:
http://www.syfy.com/tinman/oz/
The addition of music/sounds and moving animations really make the difference.