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Cosmic Zoom
1968 · Film · documentary · 8 min
Directed by Robert Verrall
This short animation transports us from the farthest conceivable point of the universe to the tiniest particle of existence, an atom of a living human cell. The art of animation and animation camera achieve this exhilarating journey with a freshness and clarity. Without words.
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When I was a kid the local science museum had this version on a film loop.
Now the local science museum has Cosmic Eye (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Eye)[1] on a loop, which was inspired by Powers of Ten and by Cosmic Zoom[2]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Are9dDbW24
[2] https://www.nfb.ca/film/cosmic_zoom/
Pretty sure that was influenced by an earlier film, Cosmic Zoom, from 1968: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgfwCrKe_Fk
Thanks for posting this, haven't seen it before! Original author of the Zoomquilt here. Also noticeable is the Eames' movie Powers of Ten https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0 and a similar movie Cosmic Zoom, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgfwCrKe_Fk. They are both from 1968 and both based on a childrens book about the relative size of things in the universe, to my knowledge the first implementations of an infinite zoom effect.