Comments on: The Zoom Quilt

The Zoom Quilt

criticalbill — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:28:27 -0800

By: jonson

jonson — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:34:06 -0800

One million times I've seen this! I demand my money back!!! But seriously. Double post.

By: still

still — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:42:09 -0800

It's news to me. All of the illustrations are gorgeous. Does anyone know how they managed to stitch those together? It's not one big file, and on zoom it looks like each frame is its own rendered file. But that would be a huge filesize...

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:45:10 -0800

Original here, though the url be broked.

By: criticalbill

criticalbill — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:50:33 -0800

Well I searched "Zoom Quilt" and nothing came up. And the url didnt get a match. Sorry.

By: Photar

Photar — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:59:32 -0800

I was wondering how they did it too, but I imagine that its just a rectangular pattern mapped to a cylindrical surface with perspective.

By: still

still — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:02:31 -0800

I'm not sure you can map like that in Flash.. I could be wrong.

By: fenriq

fenriq — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:05:14 -0800

criticalbill, the other one was "zoomquilt" and the search engine didn't pick up on it. I do believe that Matt's working on it though.

By: mai

mai — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:08:17 -0800

despite the fact that it's a double post, I've never seen this before. so thanks, b/c it's amazing.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:35:45 -0800

First time I've seen it as well. Very cool. I also wonder about the programming on this one. The cylindrical map would work, if you can, indeed, do that in flash.

By: Jimbob

Jimbob — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:41:06 -0800

How it works, I believe: Imagine the field of view is divided into a 3x3 grid. The artist draws the image in the outside eight squares, leaving the middle one blank. That's [Image 1]. And centre blank square is the basis of [Image 2], which is it's self a 3x3 grid with the middle square blanked out. [Image 2] is drawn so it's outside edge merges into [Image 1]'s inside edge, so it looks continuous. The blank space left in the middle of [Image 2] is the basis of [Image 3], etc. The animation, then, displays [Image 1], with [Image 2] scaled down to 33% in the middle of it, [Image 3] scaled down a further 33% in the middle, [Image 4] scaled down a further 33%, etc. etc. - You probably only need maybe 10 scaled down images before the smallest "middle image" is pixel sized, and no further iterations need to be drawn. Zooming, then, is just a case of making each sub-image larger.

By: pmbuko

pmbuko — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:42:42 -0800

Very cool, despite it double-postedness. As to how it works, I think the hard work was done outside Flash. What we are probably doing is navigating a series of still frames in a loop.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:43:30 -0800

If you click the Xs at the bottom of this page, you'll see the graphics used. Click where it says HTML/JPG (1,5 MB) link to see the different sizes of each image that were used.

By: thomcatspike

thomcatspike — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:47:18 -0800

Like that quilt was used in the description.

By: Outlawyr

Outlawyr — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:04:27 -0800

Very cool. Thanks for the link

By: loquacious

loquacious — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:11:30 -0800

This seems to be more thematic and coherent than SITOs Gridcosm project, though roughly the same idea. I posted it here. I think mine might have been a repost as well.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:34:29 -0800

Cool link even though it is a double (ya fecal freak).

By: Balisong

Balisong — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 20:01:51 -0800

Thanks!! this is mind-numbingly cool...

By: dazed_one

dazed_one — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:48:00 -0800

That was cool, even if it was a double.

By: Satapher

Satapher — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 01:58:13 -0800

was this a double post?

By: jennyb

jennyb — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 16:10:41 -0800

I don't know. If only someone would tell us! But this is really neat. I like the part with the killer trees. KILL TREES, KILL.