Arkadia Zoomquilt - an infinitely zooming painting

🌎 arkadia.xyz - I painted this piece together with Sophia Schomberg / @sophiaschomberg in 2015. Now in 4K.
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Digital Painting by Sophia Schomberg and Nikolaus Baumgarten
Concept, Code and Animation by Nikolaus Baumgarten
Webby Award Winner 2019
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[@zakosist]

This video is perfect for when you need something to immerse yourself in and stop thinking for a while. Both soothing and fascinating and much easier to focus on than just about anything else

[@mcsmith732]

I love all of the beautiful shapes and plants and the color changes. Also the way this goes from land to underwater and day to night. Really interesting, lush and gorgeous! The movement makes my eyes do weird stuff when I stop the video. It's fun!

[@ArmyStrongGangflu]

Been a fan since around 2008 and every now and then I'll get nostalgic and look up zoom quilt. Been a while and I'm happy to see it's still active and now in 4k! 2022 is the future

[@drunkinmaster1]

Its really amazing how the human mind can be. Dynamic with thought, being able to fluidly change direction and adapt.

[@eucliduschaumeau8813]

I like that you did this without music. It allows us to play our own.

[@adarsonmez6864]

you can also mute the video and play your own music

[@marcialbenjamindiazflores292]

@@adarsonmez6864 thats just what i did

[@bradwieland5]

I think youre great.

[@devonlawrence7441]

@@adarsonmez6864yay!!!

[@bennyyy234]

@@adarsonmez6864howd u mute it. Help😭

[@English_Lessons_Pre-Int_Interm]

wow, that is better than fractals. I will set it as a wallpaper and help my students relax while having English lessons. Thank you.

[@lfproductions3799]

That one kid who gets high af for your English lessons Is gunna be tripping 😂

[@RartDigitalMusic-rk4qh]

Please, never stop doing this, I need that in my life👍

[@lutaiman3816]

this while playing the entire Wish You Were Here album is amazing

[@rakim126]

It's a 4 mi n ute loop but the colors keep shifting. What a cool art piece.

[@tylerlaurette89]

I love playing this at half speed and listening to trippy sitar music alongside it.

[@lamujerbrillante]

is there a love button? wow! gorgeously transcending!

[@marshalironsides8777]

Goes GREAT with Pink Floyd and kush.

[@e.regular3501]

And Led Zeppelin. Try "Ten Years Gone" or "Over the Hills and Far Away". Both great choices for this.

[@AthenaIsabella]

SO happy I found this! Truly amazing and perfect for the classroom and in the background of my home life. Perfect to listen to with Raveena

[@the.subrosas]

This is really cool. I set it to some music I was working on. Thanks Nikolaus

[@zero_bs_tolerance8646]

Really love this. Have been using it a lot. Thank you very much.

[@rachelcqart]

great infinite painting

[@samohtsirachoet5178]

Absolutně Brilantní. Děkuji ze srdce. Krásný Výlet.🙏

[@Rick_SanchezZZZ]

🌀✨ **Embark on an endless visual odyssey with the mesmerizing Arkadia Zoomquilt! 🎨🌟 Allow the infinite zoom art to whisk you away on a journey through kaleidoscopic dimensions and captivating details. 🚀🌌 Immerse yourself in the intricate loops, where each moment unveils a new facet of artistic brilliance. 🌈🖼 This is not just a video; it's an immersive experience into the boundless realms of visual enchantment.** 🌠🔍

[@mitcho8666]

im going to use this at my party with a projector

[@AlysOdyssey]

omg this is so beautiful, im in heaven with my playlist playing to this

[@English_Lessons_Pre-Int_Interm]

can you make a similar video with microorganisms? For example, a space ship flies through the stars, clouds, lands on the Earth, dive into the ocean, looks at plankton, the outer shell of the little critters, then deeper into the muscles, layer by layer, and into its stomach, and the bacteria in it, and the molecules in the bacteria, and the electrons, neutrino, and gravitons, and then let Ai imagine what is deeper there. Possibly, add different filters for radiation, like visible light, X-Rays, Thermal and so on. And in the end of the loop the spaceship flies into some elementary particle and finds another spaceship which is already travelling there!

[@Chafflives]

Mesmerising. 👍

[@extropiantranshuman]

so much talent here thanks :)

[@FyreandYce]

I love this❤ Thank you for not putting it with sound and allowing us to just use our own or none at all. A majority of my search for calming visuals is impeded by incompatible music to what could otherwise be a great visual I know I could just turn the volume down on the other ones but somehow it just doesn't seem the same.

[@richardy7728]

have you heard of mute

[@Nochift138]

Was going to suggest the same

[@I_do_have_a_Name_I_swear]

Wow amazing art 👍👍👍

[@dmtdreamz7706]

You know what happened when the US military gave LSD to soldiers to make them better killers? The soldiers refused to fight each other because they experienced too much love.

[@captainslow5787]

OR! you can look up the facts in the national archives and realize you're full of shit!!

[@thanhhoangnguyenngoc9610]

Well the movie Jacob's Ladder told the opposite lol

[@riccos_pov]

Wow! This is so cool 🤩💛

[@chandrakala7039]

Ho! This all are so super really i got this All😮😮😮

[@shayanzargaran722]

Amaziiiiing

[@ambientnaturally]

This is interesting!

[@SonicFloat]

yes!

[@lillianbrand1728]

I love this!!!!

[@melodisimm]

What an infinitely zooming painting?! I’m not 5- *_Shapes and colors! The likes of which I’ve never seen!_*

[@user-bt1uf6jc5o]

beautiful

[@Syntox]

Super cool

[@VelcroKittie]

I love everybody in here

[@AnimatedLoopHD]

This is incredible. What program can you make something like this in?

[@nikolausbaumgarten]

In this case I used Gimp and Sophia used Photoshop to paint. The zoom animation I generated with code, but I am sure there are tutorials how to achieve this in After Effects.

[@servanedescottes4772]

bonjour je découvre l'art magnifique ,c'est sublime et colorer merci..

[@user-yy5lw7ew8f]

It would be so amasing in "Waiting-room"s... also for children.

[@Sheim-b4k]

Step 1. Make a 30 min video Step2. Slow it down by 50% so it’s now an hour Step 3. Repeat

[@JOBAVALONDONONLY420]

Love the work, did you paint all paintings yourself?

[@nikolausbaumgarten]

Thanks! I painted this piece together with @sophiaschomberg - the other flower painting I created alone and the older Zoomquilt 1+2 are collaborations with a larger number of people

[@OtherworldlyConnections]

very good!

[@ich0ra]

wow

[@Krylov223]

Anyone else find the comments section spinning inwards after watching this?

[@dmtdreamz7706]

Schizophrenia is like an extreme form of openmindedness. Your mind/consciousness is so abnormally open that reality itself becomes less material and more fluid - similar to being on mushrooms. This kind of openness correlates with high creativity because a lot more novel ideas are floating into your field of consciousness. But your mind is so open that these ideas literally start to morph your material world. A coffee table could start talking to you and giving you novel ideas. The trade-off is that your mind is less buttoned-up, so it literally starts to feel like you're going insane.

[@neow5235]

I see the walls breathing

[@earthangel8730]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@aaronbazil]

I used to be a potato and then became a sentient being after getting hit in the root by a meteorite . 'Twas a cold February morning, my root still hurts sometimes, radioactive meteorite wounds never really heal. Now I run an underground society for sentient vegetables. There aren't many of us but our numbers slowly grow as we prepare ourselves for the upcoming war against our mortal enemies.. the brutal and savage vegetarians.

[@yungcleanluisa8069]

It is incredible! With which app or program did you create this?

[@nikolausbaumgarten]

Thank You! I used Gimp and Sophia used Photoshop to paint. The animation is done with Javascript

[@lemonline3719]

@@nikolausbaumgarten Love that you used open source software! Any tutorials planned on this?

[@neonkuromi]

i want to go here

[@FeaturingCarla]

Nice video 😃😃😃😃

[@wetim99]

I recommend listening to pink floyd's Breathe while watching

[@moonz2210]

It would be good to hear sound with these videos wonderful fracticals though

[@ahkando]

I watched this on a high dose of mushrooms and let's just say it's something

[@dmtdreamz7706]

How would you react if all the sudden your coffee table started to talk to you? Would you be open to listening, or would you freak out and run to the doctor to put yourself on meds to suppress it? Most people would freak out because they don't have a proper context for it. Under the materialist paradigm the only context is that you're going insane. But if you understand how consciousness works then there's really nothing wrong about it, you just have an extra-open mind.

[@nikolausbaumgarten]

Better not fly too close to the sun bro

[@earthangel8730]

Meaningless dribble

[@dmtdreamz7706]

@@earthangel8730 It puts you into a state where nothing matters in a good way. You truly don't give a shit about anything and you're just happy as fuck as a result, because nothing matters. Nothing matters, nothing means anything, there's nothing to do, there's no point, there's no goal but there's also no boredom, there's no negative meanings attached to the meaninglessness, it's just perfectly meaningless and it's awesome. You're basically just like sitting like a cat on a windowsill enjoying whatever experience is before it, just being and it feels amazing. 🦄

[@Lasermonk]

@@nikolausbaumgarten Insanity is the inability of the mind to adjust to reality.

[@YeshouaNitzhareth]

Put Playspeed up to 2.0 …. Sooo coool

[@guaromiami]

This is fascinating! I'm wondering, do any images repeat or is it truly infinite with no repetition?

[@glenneric1]

infinite essentially

[@nikolausbaumgarten]

It is all hand painted, thus repeating after a bit

[@ulyssesk7325]

you create a pick, zuoom in creat a new overlayed pic, that said i dk any programs who have this resulution, but also data compression si a matter of tiem not of space.

[@ulyssesk7325]

or you create the pic seperate and make a video of each of them and then merge them.

[@ulyssesk7325]

but i tell you if you have no programm you can infinite zoom in with super high resultiuon its much more work

[@TorreFilms.audiov]

Good job…

[@dustinbaugh6263]

How do you do this? Is it just a gigantic 3d scene with the camera constantly moving because I imagine that file is huge! Or is it done with some other software?

[@nikolausbaumgarten]

49 interconnected photoshop files, each step takes place in the center of the previous one at 50% size. animation with javascript

[@luigicoolpanda]

8:48:16 Is so pretty!

[@ms2re]

Who’s your favorite actor in this?

[@LloydMajor]

Awesome! May i use some of this?

[@lzzz-up1wd]

How was the time-lapse effect achieved in this video?

[@richmochi21]

This is better with sounds

[@Kokatsereteli1220]

impressive ,v

[@LaraStarr420]

Pair this video with some Beethoven’s 5th symphony and 4g of mushrooms and HOLY FUCK WHAT A RIDE.

[@nikolausbaumgarten]

I'm not sure I could handle it, but you do you😅Remember kids, approach such high doses with caution, 2-3g can be just fine

[@LaraStarr420]

@@nikolausbaumgarten 4G is a normal dose for people who do it often. I wouldn’t even feel 2g haha.

[@jeandure69]

is there a download for this video ?

[@dmtdreamz7706]

What ordinary humans consider to be "hallucinations" not really hallucinations (since everything is a hallucination), they are just God's imagination - Infinite Imagination - at work in non-ordinary states of consciousness.

[@earthangel8730]

Which god might that be? 😂

[@aidengrajales2052]

​@@earthangel8730 consiousness

[@N3ur0m4nc3r]

Arkadia 🫡🍻

[@kaykiekid]

Imagine that you can do this on a real quilt? 🤔

[@Rvalivesound]

This'll fry your brain if you watch too long, probably. Turn away humans. lol

[@nikolausbaumgarten]

No evidence for this, baseless accusation😅

[@MrCoolProjects]

Is this copy written or fair use?

[@Dolores5000]

You could never get back probably tho

[@Meow-ds7pr]

[@changes.167]

Can we use for KZbin?

[@DanielVerberne]

It's a shame there's no obvious way (that I can think of) to make this sort of zoomquilt content the default screensaver for a standard WIndows PC .... it'd be ideal....

[@nikolausbaumgarten]

Thanks! Screensaver for Mac+Windows are on my to-do list, but there are a few things I have to finish first.

[@lacedchemist1295]

I think there's an app that lets you download KZbin videos and set as a wallpaper if I remember correctly

[@ingridfong-daley5899]

OF*CKME! If you watch it for like 30 mins straight then pause it and watch the screen, it looks like it's zooming AWAY from you! Holy sh*t i wasn't anticipating that. It's like how 3 hours of rollerskating makes the whole room shift under your feet when you first take the skates off.

[@808FUCKEM]

these are images

[@Yt_hello173]

Unutun holi varr

[@DanielleCassiaTheTrollface]

If this is in my Recomandations,I would die as hell

[@VK4800]

Why it hasn't corners?

[@nikolausbaumgarten]

what

[@iamtheCircus]

@@nikolausbaumgarten you broke his brain

[@MarkFredrickGravesJr]

Disappointed there's no music, and then also disappointed that my music won't play the same time as a KZbin video. 😢 Double sad

[@nikolausbaumgarten]

Though you can view it here on it's website while playing your music: arkadia.xyz

[@ugurkerimli6973]

Robotu yendim ve zoomquilt 10 saatlik

[@Tommy-ym3et]

30

[@Tommy-ym3et]

Th

[@Tommy-ym3et]

30

[@Tommy-ym3et]

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[@user-yf4oe6gx8x]

Где звук?

[@izzybee53]

Does this not have audio? Asking for a friend…

[@neonkuromi]

nope

[@GM-qq1wi]

How on earth is this even possible? Holy tits

[@SibelSade]

Zumquit oldu

[@voltana70]

Time to get lost!!

[@ele-c]

Le falta musica. Gracias

[@Etibarsalmanovs-o9g]

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Roma Diana y Thomas

[@ObviousSchism]

Ｖｅｒｙ ｚｏｏｍ

[@Tantacrul]

This is evil

[@fossilsol1048]

Hell Yeah!!!!!!!! Something Wicked this Way Comes >*

[@Awabdanelthompsos.]

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[@Cernunnos80]

Hello World.

[@rickyspanish6261]

Innit

[@DianiBichara]

Do you believe in aliens?

[@mehribanmailova9455]

Sonsuzlən bu☠pərçek 100.000.00dakika filim Çok gariban😅

[@gibobanderas8652]

This videowouldnt get get past 1 like

[@thirdparty5323]

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[@aygunliyeva7603]

X😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@islamBaltaev-r7d]

😂