Powers of Ten video

posted Fri 9 Jun 2006 by Michael Galloy under Visualization

The Powers of Ten video is now available on YouTube. This classic short video zooms from 10^-16 meters to 10^24 meters at a rate of 10x per 10 seconds. The opening quote of the movie is:

A film dealing with the relative size of things in the universe and the effect of adding another zero.

Powers of Ten

It shows the amazing power of video. Edward Tufte calls the movie “one of the first and best visualizations” in Visual Explanations (page 23). He also recommends the book Powers of Ten by Phillip Morrison, Phylis Morrison, and the Office of Charles and Ray Eames.

Link via kottke.org.

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michaelgalloy.com » Interactive cell size visualization says:
October 29th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
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March 12th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
[…] a fun video for a Friday afternoon, a modern version of Powers of Ten, produced by The American Museum of Natural History. No Comments […]

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