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Re: Zoomquilt

#31

Post by wuliwong » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 2:16 PM UTC

It's a piece of art, enabled by web technologies that are far more accessible now than in the past. I love web art stuff. I'm both an artist and a scientist/programmer, so things like zoomquilt are a perfect marriage for me. Gives both sides of my brain stimulus.

Re: Zoomquilt

#32

Post by mohs3n » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 2:19 PM UTC

Actually pretty amazing, artwork and technology! So how exactly does it work? The art couldn't have been done in a JS canvas, could it? I imagine it's just a really high resolution image that gets zoomed into and looped back? That's actually hard to understand too...

Re: Zoomquilt

#33

Post by raverbashing » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 2:20 PM UTC

zaphar wrote: post #26

The amazing part is actually that I opened a link to a javascript demo page and my cpu fan didn't immediately start up.

And it worked flawlessly in my "not so broad" band

Re: Zoomquilt

#34

Post by wuliwong » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 2:21 PM UTC

seiji wrote: post #24

What's the vine a metaphor for? The government? The TSA? Google? Facebook?

https://vine.co/ ? :-p

Re: Zoomquilt

#35

Post by keithgabryelski » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 2:23 PM UTC

Re: Zoomquilt

#36

Post by bdickason » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 2:24 PM UTC

I always loved the ice.org 'quilt' platform - it's a bummer that the community never flourished like DeviantArt, etc.

Now if only someone made an ANSi/Ascii version of the zoomquilt... :D

Re: Zoomquilt

#37

Post by wuliwong » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 2:26 PM UTC

_random_ wrote: post #7

It appears to be similar to previous version: http://zoomquilt2.madmindworx.com/zoomquilt2.swf . Only this time it's a slightly different script language, different rich client and a different vector-based rendering engine. The obvious difference is that now I can't save it easily to be enjoyed later.

Other differences: the art work is 100% different and you have to wait for the flash version to load.

Luckily my browser has the ability to "bookmark" urls, so while I am not going to save it for "offline" viewing, I can go back to it whenever I am connected to the internet.

Re: Zoomquilt

#38

Post by alexwright » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 2:26 PM UTC

mohs3n wrote: post #32

Actually pretty amazing, artwork and technology! So how exactly does it work? The art couldn't have been done in a JS canvas, could it? I imagine it's just a really high resolution image that gets zoomed into and looped back? That's actually hard to understand too...

I dunno about everyone else, but on this 24" Dell IPS I can see the next image being loaded and then scaled, does it every few seconds. The details starts getting a bit blurry them pop, new asset super imposed and we start scaling.

Re: Zoomquilt

#39

Post by manmal » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 2:29 PM UTC

mohs3n wrote: post #32

Actually pretty amazing, artwork and technology! So how exactly does it work? The art couldn't have been done in a JS canvas, could it? I imagine it's just a really high resolution image that gets zoomed into and looped back? That's actually hard to understand too...

It's certainly not a single image, you can see how the content gets blurred at the edges. It's similar to the kind of image you get when you point a camera at a TV and display the picture on the same TV. It looks like infinity, but actually you just have a rectangle in every picture through which you can "look" at the same picture, which in turn has another rectangle etc. In zoomquilt, it's not rectangles, but more complex (vector-drawn?) shapes which let you see through each image to next. Similar to a card stack where every card has a hole, and the last card is also the one before the first.

Re: Zoomquilt

#40

Post by chrisdevereux » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 2:37 PM UTC

davorb wrote: post #30

What's up with all of the snarky comments? This community is getting more and more toxic by the day.

I think it's largely because of the title, which suggests that this (and JS + HTML canvas) is technically innovative in a way that it isn't.

As long as they're informed criticisms and not too aggressive, that's a good thing. If people are potentially going to criticize your project for not bringing anything new, point out where you've oversold it, etc. then the positive feedback means a lot more. Plus you (and others reading) might learn something.

Better than having a sycophantic echo chamber.