This is the original landscape-format version of the short movie
'Cosmic Eye,' designed by astrophysicist
Danail Obreschkow.
The movie
zooms through all well-known scales of the universe from minuscule
elementary particles out to the gigantic cosmic web.
This project
was inspired by a progression of increasingly accurate graphical
representations of the scales of the universe, including the
classical essay "Cosmic View" by Kees Boeke (1957), the short movie
"Cosmic Zoom" by Eva Szasz (1968), and the legendary movie "Powers
of Ten" by Charles and Ray Eames (1977).
'Cosmic Eye' takes these
historical visualizations to the state-of-the-art using real
photographs obtained with modern detectors, telescopes, and
microscopes.
Other views are renderings of modern computer models.
Vector-based blending techniques are used to create a seamless zoom.
Third-party images and image-data:
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Millennium Dark Matter simulation (V. Springel & Virgo Consortium)
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3D galaxy and star positions in the local universe (from www.atlasoftheuniverse.com)
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Synthetic rendering of the Milky Way (adopted from N. Rising)
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Galaxy M51 (HST, NASA)
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Oort cloud rendering (adopted from a BBC illustration)
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Planet images (from NASA Voyager 2)
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Satellite images by 2012 Google Maps, Europa Technologies, MapLink/Tele
Atlas
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Retina photography (C. Allison)
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Electron microscopy of a leukocyte (J. Ehrman)
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Microscopy of red blood cells (internet photos.net)
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Synthetic DNA model (adopted from www.sciencephoto.com)
Music: Dreamland by Aakash Gandhi (YouTube Audio Library)
