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The rule is simple: if it has a 'JS' or 'canvas' in its title you HAVE to upvote it, because it's "innovation".
or haskell or scala or coffeescript or ...
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Zoomquilt
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#42https://googledrive.com/host/0B_Y4OBMHA7qRaTBGbVNaVFlYWWM/im... https://googledrive.com/host/0B_Y4OBMHA7qRaTBGbVNaVFlYWWM/im... https://googledrive.com/host/0B_Y4OBMHA7qRaTBGbVNaVFlYWWM/im... https://googledrive.com/host/0B_Y4OBMHA7qRaTBGbVNaVFlYWWM/im... https://googledrive.com/host/0B_Y4OBMHA7qRaTBGbVNaVFlYWWM/im... https://googledrive.com/host/0B_Y4OBMHA7qRaTBGbVNaVFlYWWM/im... https://googledrive.com/host/0B_Y4OB…
Anyone else experiencing an optical illusion looking at these stills now?
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#43For some reason that is deeply unsettling. Something about the movement at the edges.
I think it's because the zooming brings things forward, but the perspective of objects don't change as they pass.
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#44Wasn't the original done in flash like...a decade ago?
Unless I'm mistaken, the original was a scene from an Amiga demo some time in the late nineties.
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#45When you watch the whole thing and look at some other page afterwards, it's moving in the opposite direction. I found the artistic aspect and the amount of work that must have gone into this project more interesting than the technological aspect. There are 15 participating artists though so at least they could split the work.
Thank you for saying that. I was worried that I was hallucinating alone.
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#46What's up with all of the snarky comments? This community is getting more and more toxic by the day.
because it's been done already. Personaly i would like to see usefull stuffs done in JS, not flash wannabee intros.
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#47Original author here. Thanks for the mention!
The project was done in 2004, first implementation in shockwave, later flash. I redid the whole thing in js+canvas a few weeks ago, finally with a much smoother zooming algorithm than before.
Feel free to shoot me any questions you might have!
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#48Actually 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 a series of images at different zoom levels. Since there's no freedom of movement, you "just" need to leave a section in the centre empty, have someone draw a large image for that section, copy in a scaled down version of that image.
When displaying it, once you've zoomed in a certain amount, you simply start copying in the next image in the series suitably scaled down, and keep zooming until that image fills the screen, and fill in the next level in, and so on. Roughly.
Repeat for as long as you have images, and optionally make it look nicely back to the beginning as they've done here.
It's nicely done, but technically very simple - "infinite zooms" like this dates back to the early days of the demo scene at least, so at least early 80's (and it wouldn't surprise me if people have done it with "manual" animations before that).
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#49https://googledrive.com/host/0B_Y4OBMHA7qRaTBGbVNaVFlYWWM/im... https://googledrive.com/host/0B_Y4OBMHA7qRaTBGbVNaVFlYWWM/im... https://googledrive.com/host/0B_Y4OBMHA7qRaTBGbVNaVFlYWWM/im... https://googledrive.com/host/0B_Y4OBMHA7qRaTBGbVNaVFlYWWM/im... https://googledrive.com/host/0B_Y4OBMHA7qRaTBGbVNaVFlYWWM/im... https://googledrive.com/host/0B_Y4OBMHA7qRaTBGbVNaVFlYWWM/im... https://googledrive.com/host/0B_Y4OB…
Anyone else experiencing an optical illusion looking at these stills now?
ya, I had to check the address bar to make sure its a still :).
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#50https://googledrive.com/host/0B_Y4OBMHA7qRaTBGbVNaVFlYWWM/im... https://googledrive.com/host/0B_Y4OBMHA7qRaTBGbVNaVFlYWWM/im... https://googledrive.com/host/0B_Y4OBMHA7qRaTBGbVNaVFlYWWM/im... https://googledrive.com/host/0B_Y4OBMHA7qRaTBGbVNaVFlYWWM/im... https://googledrive.com/host/0B_Y4OBMHA7qRaTBGbVNaVFlYWWM/im... https://googledrive.com/host/0B_Y4OBMHA7qRaTBGbVNaVFlYWWM/im... https://googledrive.com/host/0B_Y4OB…
I get a 403 forbidden for all these links...