Zoomquilt
I initially tried to describe a zoomquilt by saying, “Computer art where the point-of-view is always zooming into or out of the drawing, infinitely in a loop.” And that made little sense. So, I asked claude.ai to improve my sentence and I got back the quip above.
Maybe I should try to ask claude.ai to describe it to me like I’m a 5-year-old. “Special movies where the camera keeps zooming in or out of a picture forever and ever. As it zooms, you keep seeing more tiny shapes and details that were hiding. It never stops zooming in and out and showing you more stuff!”
Oh! I see!
Of course, a video makes it all clear...
Ten hours of zooming into a picture could hypnotize you...
Claude.ai reminded me that “zoomquilt” is a term coined by Nikolaus Baumgarten, who created the video above. There is a website with other examples of his work on it. He has a zoomquilt that you can use as live wallpaper on your Android based phone!
I immediately have two questions:
My first question is: How do you create a zoomquilt?
Haddy the Creator shares how he contributed a couple of frames to a collaborative effort with the Cheese Wizards.
Wow! That sounds like a lot of work!
If I wanted to create something like this, I have two main issues:
- I can’t draw very well.
- I have no time to learn to draw very well and still make a living.
This leads to my second question: Can AI image generation be used to create a zoomquilt? – maybe using inpainting or outpainting repeatedly?
Imagine a zoomquilt where you travel through a sampling of art history in five minutes. Imagine a zoomquilt that shifts between photo realistic and surreal cartoon and everything in between.
Stable diffusion generated this image, when I asked for an infinite, looping zoomquilt.