Infinitely zooming botanical floral paradise painting

by masupicchu • 5 years ago

331 30 5 years ago

lioeters• 5 years ago

I've seen a few variations of this technique, and always wondered how they're made. Here's the script if anyone else is curious: http://arkadia.xyz/zoom.js?v=19

onion2k• 5 years ago

Most of that script is actually for loading, playback and keyboard/mouse controls. The salient bit is loop() function on lines 152 to 233.

It loops around an array of 48 (hand-drawn?!) images, using 4 images at any given time. The images and the base scale factor are based on an incrementing 'z_position' value. It copies each of of the four images in to an HTML5 canvas so the outer 25% is a straight up copy of one image, then 50-75% is 0.5 scale copy of another image, then 25-50% is a third image at 0.25 scale, and the centre 25% is the fourth image at 0.125 scale. All the effects are CSS filters applied to the canvas element.

It's surprisingly simple for such a cool effect.

AltruisticGap2• 5 years ago

Ahh. I thought it was another one of those AI generated effects.

I haven't looked at the images, I assume then that they are specially made for that effect? (because I can't see the images fading one into another)

porker• 5 years ago

Very clever, and explains why it doesn't hammer my CPU. I was surprised when my computer didn't turn into a leg warmer.

Hoasi• 5 years ago

Thank you for explaining this.

tomcam• 5 years ago

I can’t thank you enough for doing this. I somehow got intimidated and was afraid to look at the source. It only increases my wonder at this astounding piece of art.

alanbernstein2• 5 years ago

The code is simple, but don't overlook the level of effort in producing the, yes, hand-drawn, images that all align with their neighbors in a weird way.

fsflover• 5 years ago

Recent discussion with more such links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25191802

cnewey• 5 years ago

This is great. Such a powerful visualisation for such a simple technique!

My only critique is that I wish the creator hadn't used JPG images - there are clear compression artifacts that appear towards the edge of the screen as one image transitions to another.

leephillips• 5 years ago

They are PNGs

jonplackett• 5 years ago

It's just because the image has to get so enlarged as it gets that big. You'd have to use massive images otherwise (I've made a few infinite zooms before)

RicoElectrico• 5 years ago

Stare for a while, then click right mouse button -> View image. What a trippy illusion when it stops zooming.

afarviral• 5 years ago

This gives me really strong motion aftereffect (MAE), which is fascinatingly weird. I like it :)

atomicson• 5 years ago

This is not an infinitely zooming. It is like someone drives a car.

ironmagma• 5 years ago

There’s no motion of the objects relative to each other (parallax), there is only scaling. That is the effect you would get by zooming in on a telephoto lens.

impostervt• 5 years ago

I had an idea for a long-term, online, massively collaborative game like this years ago, but had no idea how to make it. Perhaps someone else can.

Turn a picture like this into a jigsaw puzzle, and then let people place the pictures. At the start of the game only release a few pieces. As pieces are placed correctly together, spawn new pieces that fit, somewhere, on the border of the part of the puzzle already completed. As the puzzle grows, players can zoom out (like the linked artwork).

Let many, many people work on the same puzzle and maybe have an ongoing chat for collaboration "let's all work on the part in quadrant 23 (or something).

blake8086• 5 years ago

Sounds like https://www.ice.org/tiles/

csunbird• 5 years ago

XKCD has a semi-relevant comic like this, although it is more interactive (you can choose where to zoom in and get different results): https://xkcd.com/1416/

throwaway_kufu• 5 years ago

I watched on a phone for only a minute, it’s beautiful, came back to the comments section and I had some serious optical illusions trying to read the first comment. I had to put the phone down just to readjust.

edeion• 5 years ago

Very hypnotic indeed. Gets you right into dream mode :)

legerdemain• 5 years ago

Yeah, watching an infinite zoom will definitely leave you with a few seconds of motion "aftereffect."[1]

[1] https://michaelbach.de/ot/mot-adapt/

dstroot• 5 years ago

Eventually my brain turned off the zoom effect and switched to the feeling I was flyin/floating down a path. It felt more like forward motion. Weird but cool!

marcodiego• 5 years ago

Nice screensaver!

Reminds of the powers of 10 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0

carrozo• 5 years ago

Kudos to Nikolaus Baumgarten and Sophia Schomberg, who seem to have won a Webby Award in 2019 for it:

https://nikkki.net/

cyrillevincey2• 5 years ago

it's a loop, isn't it?

cyrillevincey2• 5 years ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's a loop of approx. 3 minutes

stupidhack• 5 years ago

While this is undoubtedly cool, it's not infinite zoom. Try zooming in off the path and you are pulled back.

Or at least I interpreted zooming as the ability to direct it.

Infinitely zooming botanical floral paradise painting

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