Holy recursion, Batman!

May 18, 2006 1:00 PM

Information. One of ten random flash thingys from the 10 ways project.
posted by monju_bosatsu (26 comments total)

That's not flash, it's Shockwave. (Why do people still write Shockwave, not Flash, in 2006?)
posted by mendel at 1:30 PM on May 18, 2006

Awesome!

It is reminiscent of playing with the Mandelbrot set back in DOS-days -- some part of your brain always expects to somehow get to the "end" of the zoom range.
posted by misterbrandt at 1:31 PM on May 18, 2006

Wow. That's cool monju_bosatsu. I could play on that information link for hours.


(Why do people still write Shockwave, not Flash, in 2006?)

Did Macromedia do something special in 2006 to differentiate their similar web plug-ins?
posted by eyeballkid at 1:35 PM on May 18, 2006

(Why do people still write Shockwave, not Flash, in 2006?)

Shockwave has a 3D engine, for one...
posted by ae4rv at 1:38 PM on May 18, 2006

My god...It's full of starspictures!
posted by Gamblor at 1:39 PM on May 18, 2006

That's pretty cool.
posted by Artw at 1:45 PM on May 18, 2006

I'm so glad I'm not tripping right now.
posted by tula at 1:46 PM on May 18, 2006

I keep getting the same one. And, I found boobies!
posted by Eekacat at 1:56 PM on May 18, 2006

The other projects from the second link are also pretty cool. I really liked the memories one.
posted by lucasks at 2:04 PM on May 18, 2006

Well done. There's a lot of awfully cute baby pictures in there.
posted by boo_radley at 2:16 PM on May 18, 2006

Yowza, that's cool!
posted by crumbly at 2:27 PM on May 18, 2006

OH, and yes I find it very cool. I just want MORE
posted by Eekacat at 2:52 PM on May 18, 2006

and naked men, yikes.
posted by boo_radley at 2:53 PM on May 18, 2006

Very cool!
posted by event at 3:00 PM on May 18, 2006

That is awesome stuff.
posted by Pontius Pilate at 3:19 PM on May 18, 2006

some part of your brain always expects to somehow get to the "end" of the zoom range.

with this one, you do. you will eventually converge on a mostly monochromatic image which, when clicked in the right place, just returns itself.
posted by 3.2.3 at 3:26 PM on May 18, 2006

Trippage.
posted by quite unimportant at 4:44 PM on May 18, 2006

I... Cannot... Stop......


Great post.
posted by lumpenprole at 5:50 PM on May 18, 2006

Hella hypnotic.
posted by Isabeau Sahen at 6:12 PM on May 18, 2006

To quote some other mefite, this is the awesomest thing since sliced awesome.
posted by wolftrouble at 7:14 PM on May 18, 2006

Ow, my synaesthesia!
posted by Eideteker at 7:23 PM on May 18, 2006

Did Macromedia do something special in 2006 to differentiate their similar web plug-ins?

No, I just meant that by now I figured everyone agreed that Flash had won. But maybe there's something specific to Shockwave the author of this thing wanted. I will never know, though, since there's no Shockwave for my platform.
posted by mendel at 9:14 PM on May 18, 2006

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posted by hypersloth at 3:23 AM on May 19, 2006

I found a bug- the wrong picture loaded on a zoom.
Also, my entire machine locked up when the page first loaded. Scary!
posted by Four Flavors at 9:33 AM on May 19, 2006

I can't believe no one's linked to the Hasselhoffian Recursion.
posted by MrMoonPie at 9:41 AM on May 19, 2006

I got to level 3.


Seriously, this is spiffy, however I also found a bug - I zoomed in on a black girl's eye, and got the eye mixed in with someone's shoes/feet in like a 50-50 blend. Odd.

For fun and realizing how this more or less works, try to keep zooming in on the lightest or darkest thing you can find (or reddest, or bluest - but pick one).
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 4:27 PM on May 19, 2006