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16:10 - Intramural
http://zoomquilt2.madmindworx.com/zoomquilt2.swf
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This (via Chris) is pretty bloody cool. It's the second such effort, too, apparently.
What I find interesting about this is that my high school in Ukiah, CA had something quite similar on the high western wall of the cafeteria/auditorium building. The wall had huge stucco panels about 10 x 20 feet (or bigger; I can't estimate lengths for crap), and one year one enterprising graduating senior did a marvelous fantastical mural covering one of the panels and abruptly stopping at the boundaries. The following year, another senior came along and did his own mural adjoining it, picking up on the surrealistic, Dali-esque floating cement blocks and forest highways and hovering eyeballs and expanding it into the next panel over. For the next several years, it became something of a tradition for a graduating senior to add a panel to the mural, even to the point of painting over the original one once they ran out of wall.
The advantage to doing this digitally, it seems, is that you never run out of wall.
(I'm guessing, by the way, that these are created by taking the previous person's kernel picture, shrinking it down, and then creating your own larger picture around it. Then you get this awesome zooming effect by starting with the newest, outermost image and trucking inward.)
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Brian Tiemann
