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For some reason what really sticks out to me is how when you zoom out, you always come out of a different part of the circuit, so it doesn't feel like the normal repetitive fractal, you're seeing all the parts of the machine from different chronological angles or something.


Interestingly, the author's blog post [1] mentions that this is due to technical limitations and not specifically done by choice, although I do like the effect.

> When we zoom in, we discard the information of the largest meta-metapixel, so it is not always possible to reconstruct the same scene when we zoom out again.

> Since zooming in and out can be continued indefinitely, we also realize that we need infinite information to accurately represent "our current position".

[1] https://blog.oimo.io/2023/04/10/life-universe-en/


Todepond's "Screens in Screens" explores infinite zoomability!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4OIcwt8vcE

"Another thing I know about screens is, you can go into them as far as you want forever. And you can come out of them too, but you might not end up in the same place that you started. You might get lost. Or you might not."




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