Zoomquilt

I wanted to continue the series of posts about all sorts of interesting self-reference gizmos and I decided to write about the Zoomquilt genre. I did a search, I saw that one For a start, about the genre itself. It's easier to show than to tell. We are approaching the picture and instead of seeing pixels the size of a fist at some point, we see the following picture, we repeat the procedure many times (in fact, it looks like one quite smooth process and if the artists did a good job, then the “joints” we we will not see at all) and eventually we arrive at the original picture. In general, multikvayny, only for artists. And how is such a thing done? Of course, you can draw it all frame by frame, moreover, some talented animators would have done it well. But practically in all existing works of this genre it is indicated that these are fruits of collective creativity. Usually there is a team of artists, a project coordinator and a programmer who actually assembles it all together and writes an interface. Next on the creation technology. Under the cut a lot of pictures. I began to look for information on the technology of creation and I was lucky. I came across the original images of which was the very first Zoomquilt. Here is one of them: Each “source” is an image of 1024 * 768 in the middle of which there is a black rectangle 512 * 384 in size. To begin with, let's deal with the build of zoomquilt from these “sources”. Let's turn the pictures into full-fledged frames of the...

The Zoomquilt A collaborative infinitely zooming painting Created in 2004 Up and down keys to navigate A project by Participating illustrators: Andreas Schumann, Eero Pitkänen, Florian Biege, Jann Kerntke, Lars Götze, Luis Felipe, Marcus Blättermann, Markus Neidel, Paul Painter, Oliver Schlemmer, Sonja Schneider, Thorsten Wolber, Tony Stanley, Ville Vanninen

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