Dig it.

[KillingFrenzy]

http://www.mantasoft.co.uk/_stuff/Recursive.swf

[burstingfist]

Whoa, how did he do that?

[eXhale]

now that's some interesting fractals :)

i wonder how this was made too, is it just a complicated aftereffect job put in loop?

[hyperdimensional]

argghhh!!!
That should be illegal. Its gonna take minutes of therapy to help me recover!!!

Nice beard though.

[Primebase3]

very nice reminds me of a manu chao vid i've seen ,also loops inside a loop and so on , it's a freaky effect and sometimes pretty scary

[AetherPan]

:D
damn nice effect.

[Yetimon]

Ooh - I think I've just found my new screensaver.

It looks like a very very nice distortion job in Photoshop. The 'image' is tilted, shrunk, and pasted back onto itself several times over, then this image is zoomed into using aftereffects. Quite stunning!

[BrainStove]

Well yeah, nice and ingenious, but I?m gonna hate to deflate your excitement... because no magic, no miracle, nothing fancy is there really, so I think no AE, no PS, No Combustion or funky plugins were used.

In fact just put yourself in front of a big mirror holding in your hands a smaller mirror a bit tilted in the same way as shown in the original Flash file, take a simple snapshot with a digital camera or whatever (prolly you?ll need some help on this), import your still into your computer and if you have SWiSH 2.0 just use 1)Insert image 2)Select the Transform effect and play with the values a little bit and That?s it. (I?m sure a lot of other Flash programs can work too)

Easy?... Hehehe, I think to get your own Flash file with the same effect it is easier than peel tangerines, I got mine in just 15 minutes from the beginning.

If you really want some fancy FXs, then swap the smaller mirror in your hands with a video monitor instead and a motion Handycam rather than the still camera, play with the camera zoom at the same time as you are capturing the clip into your computer a_n_d... I?m sure you can figure it out for yourself the whole new world before your eyes :D

P.S. That?s the real magic when you start to combine the Optics with the Electronics.

P.P.S. Somebody said (maybe Einstein), "The most complicated things very often are the simplest ones"

[syzygy]

Originally posted by BrainStove
Well yeah, nice and ingenious, but I?m gonna hate to deflate your excitement... because no magic, no miracle, nothing fancy is there really, so I think no AE, no PS, No Combustion or funky plugins were used.


While I've seen the infinite recursion effect done with mirrors, I've never seen that approach get the effect that this flash movie has - of the frame of the picture forming a single spiral (and, indeed, the rest of the image being a spiral too) - follow it round - there is only one picture there rather than a series of discreet recursion levels.

Are you saying that you can get this 'single spiral' effect by holding a mirror up to another one?

Dan.

(SyZyGy Visuals)

[BrainStove]

Indeed syzygy, but not just holding the mirrors (This is just the initial step to get the snapshot), so you have to go using specially SWiSH 2.0 (I?m pretty sure that?s the prog the dude has used) and of course follow the next steps I already mentioned.

Try, I?ve done my own version pretty fast :)

[Ollie]

that is pretty cool

the dudes now put up a little tutorial (http://www.mantasoft.co.uk/anim/) of how he did his, now we can all do one :)

[akira_k]

Heh nice one, and not that hard to make I guess, let's check that tut.

actually I was more impressed at seing TBL's demo "Captured Dreams" for the Amiga, they have this sort of infinite tunnel that is quite outstanding. And running in a 687030 based, 50Mhz machine with 16MB of RAM. NYAH to PCs.