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

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!

Now Joe is 1/1000 the size of his mom.

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.

This is an excellent visual example of what is going to happen as AI content becomes more ubiquitous, and new models are trained off that content. AI content feeding AI content....an AI content entropy.

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

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.

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

The ideal case: you end up recreating the 'Royksopp - Eple' music video

The reason the “Wawawa” effect is happening is because you’re going from zooming out to the edges of an image to zooming out of an image zoomed directly in the center with a constant speed. It’s a similar effect as how moving down a corridor looks slower if you focus on the middle and block out the walls close to you, so as you zoom out the edges of the image get unblocked and the zoom feels faster and faster until the cut to the next image where you’re zoomed in again. The way to fix it would be to start the zoom fast for each image, and then ease it out into a slow zoom. I think that would make it feel more like a continuous motion, but I am gonna have to test it myself at some point to make sure. Very cool experiment and I still love the end result!

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!

Right after the zoom, just when he says "Is my face all swirly now", stare at something in the room other than the screen and it will swell up bigger and bigger. Joe has effected your brain.

Fun! I’m an editor and dabbling more and more in Photoshop and After Effects. I was chatting with a colleague the other day about an endless zoom out video shared by NATO that was breaking my brain. I wonder if the finger pinch zoom out helps avoid that stutter-step problem your friend had. Lastly - have you ever done a video about early “photoshop”? Like photo manipulation done in the time of early photography? Like those famous photos of Grant and Lincoln at civil war battlefields (but it’s actually their heads were cut out and placed on a person in the shot) or cards displaying “mediums” performing their talents (like ectoplasm coming from nostrils - although maybe that’s a very different video). Good stuff, keep it up Joe!

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?