Tuesday, February 28, 2012

[fqsfwalz] One pixel zoom

An image zooms in by 0.1% per frame at 24 frames per second.  That is, 1 pixel of a 1000x1000 image slides off the edge of the screen.  (Actually, half a pixel off each edge, so we need subpixel resolution.)

After one second, the magnification is 1.001^24 = 1.024.  After 1 minute, 4.2.  After 1 hour, 3.2*10^37.  After 1 day, 1.3*10^900.

This might be good for a meditatively slow fractal zoom.  Probably pre-calculated.  Use the golden ratio phi or 1/phi day as the period to avoid seeing the same thing every day at the same time.

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