I Asked Photoshop AI to Zoom Out Infinitely. Here’s What Happened.

Are you telling me one man built this entire youtube channel from scraps in a CAVE?

I don’t need photoshop, I expand myself with McDonalds

Aren't you afraid people will just watch the video in reverse and find your cave ?

Quick technique for the expansion to be perfectly smooth : use an expression on the scale property of the layers and type in "[100,100]*Math.pow(3,-value)" where you replace "value" by a link to a slider control effect, varying from 0 to 100.

The weird thing about this, and I've tried it, is that after 200 expansions, you will end up outside a Chuck E Cheese in San Bernardino. Every time. The same Chuck E Cheese. And it's actually there, I found it on the map, at least, last time I checked.

Now we know where Joe's secret hideout is... In a cave, in a mountain, at the bottom of the sea, in the middle of the universe, in a rock, in a desert, in a road, in a pebble, in a bay on the side of a cliff, in a lagoon

"Is my face all swirly now? 👁️👄👁️" 🤣🤣🤣 Yes, yes it is.

15:05 is an insane transition, it looks like the entire thing was a miniature world ontop of a few loose rocks

14:30 What flat-earthers think will happen if you gave them the best Nikon camera.

To be honest, the app "zoom out" looks like a pre-generated effect, with your photo placed in the middle. There is barely any overlap or continuation of the original photo - it immediately went cyberpunk for no reason at all.

I remember seeing this "infinite" zoom effect in Contact (Zemeckis, 1997, film's opening sequence) and in Limitless (2011). I think it was also used in other films, but hey, at those times and without the incredible tools we have now, it was already stunning!

I feel like it would’ve made sense to have the pictures be replaced rather than merged. As you zoom out you just remove the smaller picture at the exact moment it lines up with the larger picture.

I like the "stuttering" effect because it lets you keep track of how big each expansion is (or how many there are). It is very trippy though, I'm glad it wasn't much longer than it was.

Dude. I see and understand the smoothness factor you weren't 100% happy with, but syncing it with that music beat made the world's best lemonaid out of the lemons you were given. Nicely done!

Towards the end, I was reminded of a Mandelbrot Fractal. Glad that you are doing something JUST FOR FUN!! ❤

That's a common mistake in games/real-time graphics too. To make the zoom look smooth you don't want to use a linear or cubic curve like a lot of animation packages provide, you need an exponential curve. Zooming out by a factor of 3 like you are doing would mean 3^-x where x goes from 0 to 1 for each segment. Fun fact, 3^100 is about 5x10^47 which is... huge! Like the difference in size between subatomic stuff and the size of the observable universe huge. It's baffling how a smooth, understandable zoom like that compounds so quickly isn't it?

Good lord I’ve never made it to a video 37 seconds after it came out the oven. I’m gonna need the oven gloves.

🤯 what do you mean that's not an actual photo of a wooly mammoth !?!?! 😂😂😂😂

The expansion stuttering could be solved by pre composing the composition and time remapping the pre-comp. Would love to have a crack at it when I get the time to! Also, I don't think the AI imaging started with Dall-E, there was an earlier online tool where you could paint an image with basic colors, like using MS Paint, and then it would generate your painting into a "realistic" image. I remember you could do animals, landscape and for some reason.. purses. This was a couple years before Dall-E was revealed, and was most probably one of the earlier cases of AI imaging. Loved the video, Joe!

I appreciate this video. As much as this term upsets some people I know, this is one of those "how the sausage is made" videos and I'm glad these get posted. 5:41 Even the lighting is decent.. 6:32 Is that a fridge to the right, or some sort of post-apocalyptic "life-pod"? 7:02 It's looking more and more like some sort of WWIII era self-sustaining bunker.