Wednesday, August 25, 2010

the Powers of 10

The Powers of Ten is a 1968 American documentary short film written and directed by Ray Eames and her husband, Charles Eames, rereleased in 1977. The film depicts the relative scale of the Universe in factors of ten. You start by viewing a man picnicking with his wife, you then zoom out of that scene 10 meters, then 100 meters, then 1000, and so on. Finally, when you're at the scale of the known universe you begin to zoom in 10 meters, then 100, then 100, and so on until you're at the scale of atoms and molecules.

The film was interesting and showed new ways to look at design.

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