[HN Gopher] Zoomquilt (2004)
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Zoomquilt (2004)
Author : xingyzt
Score : 280 points
Date : 2020-11-23 20:59 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (zoomquilt.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (zoomquilt.org)
| echelon wrote:
| This 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 wrote:
| From 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...
| cconcepts wrote:
| Whoa! 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 wrote:
| looks 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)
| justinzollars wrote:
| thats wild
| smaili wrote:
| Does it end?
| karaterobot wrote:
| It loops after several of those paintings, or about 5 minutes
| miguelmota wrote:
| It loops back around
| maxk42 wrote:
| No, 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 wrote:
| See also 2nd version: http://zoomquilt2.com/
| nathancahill wrote:
| Interesting. 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.
| rurounijones wrote:
| Firefox on windws - The first one was smooth a silk, the
| second, not even 30fps. more like 10.
| snazz wrote:
| Both perfectly smooth in Safari, although the second one
| seems to be higher-resolution to my eye.
| keenmaster wrote:
| It would be great if Google Earth and Google Street View zoomed
| like that in any direction.
| [deleted]
| GuB-42 wrote:
| Your screen is now shrinking...
|
| Anyways, great job!
| dec0dedab0de wrote:
| I 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 wrote:
| It's the kind of thing that would have taken < an hour in flash
| and ages in JavaScript.
|
| I know because I've tried both.
| baumgarn wrote:
| I 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 (2007) and http://arkadia.xyz (2015, my
| favourite)
| codetrotter wrote:
| This is of the things I love about HN. Someone shares a link
| and within 30 minutes of the link having been shared the
| original author of the site shows up and gives us more details
| about it and answers questions :)
|
| I have no questions of my own but thank you for having given us
| these details and answers.
| sebmellen wrote:
| Amazing 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 wrote:
| The 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 wrote:
| The 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 wrote:
| Zoomquilt 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.
| tartoran wrote:
| Very pretty, thanks for sharing.
|
| In Arkadia spacebar pauses the zoom. After a few minutes of
| watching the illustrations zoom in the scene appears to be
| zooming out but of course it is not, just neat illusion.
| olejorgenb wrote:
| I think the color cycling (doesn't pause) might play a
| role also.
| [deleted]
| jturpin wrote:
| Here's something - does anyone else's brain try to tell them that
| the trees are 3D? That's certainly a cool optical illusion!
| codazoda wrote:
| After 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?
| scrozier wrote:
| Yep.
| pierrec wrote:
| Motion aftereffect! The most extreme version of this effect
| I've ever seen is this:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzSRVgF501M
| gibolt wrote:
| Trees 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
| runlevel1 wrote:
| This is called the "motion aftereffect"
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_aftereffect
| adam12 wrote:
| I freaked out as a kid after playing River Raid on the Atari
| for hours.
| autarch wrote:
| It's happening to me right now.
| laslkjasdfl wrote:
| i felt exactly the same sensation.
| FpUser wrote:
| Something of the same nature but with video:
|
| 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
| bowmessage wrote:
| Did 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?
| blackandise wrote:
| I thought it was creative backgrounds for Zoom.
| vultour wrote:
| I misread it as Zoom Quit and thought it's going to be the
| monthly Zoom bashing thread.
| cvhashim wrote:
| Now there's an idea...
| [deleted]
| bsg75 wrote:
| Yes, then upon clicking it my next thought was how to make this
| my Zoom background.
| randomdata wrote:
| I am a still anticipating that if I wait long enough the pixels
| will enlarge into a grid of zoom.us camera feeds.
| allenu wrote:
| Exactly what I thought I would see.
| [deleted]
| qtXJ9EM wrote:
| Was thinking _exactly_ that.
| itslennysfault wrote:
| I 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.
| ShakataGaNai wrote:
| I 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.
| dang wrote:
| If curious see also
|
| 2013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6542450
| codazoda wrote:
| Good find. Answers my initial question, "How was this done?"
| neutrinoq wrote:
| Something similar to this, "Visual Meditation":
| https://mesmerizeapp.com/
| [deleted]
| newfeatureok wrote:
| If you like this and like Three Body Problem I'd check this out
| (droplet video)
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QYwGIdYm2w
| nafey wrote:
| Really nice video. Captures the essence and the terrible beauty
| of the franchise.
| cunidev wrote:
| It 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 wrote:
| You can use the arrow keys to zoom faster
| syx wrote:
| I feel this comment a lot. The art work was just amazing but
| the urge to go all the way down was higher.
| jancsika wrote:
| Is there enough precision in a double for this to be formatted as
| an SVG?
| jonplackett wrote:
| An oldie but a goodie
| Exuma wrote:
| Damn this brings back serious memories from like 2008 when I
| first saw this
| ogre_codes wrote:
| Next someone is going to post Badgers Badgers Badgers.
| jaredsohn wrote:
| That'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-...
| justarandomq wrote:
| This 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 wrote:
| Dig!
| tgb wrote:
| This 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/
| dannykwells wrote:
| I love this game! Great rec.
| p1mrx wrote:
| In terms of spatial geometry, it's more similar to
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold_Garden.
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