This is truly cool

[Nikolas (Nik)]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfSNxVqprvM
From the youtube blurb it more or less shows a smiling face then zooms out to one billion light years away then zooms back into the subatomic and back out again
Here is the way it was constructed:
"This movie was generated using the iOS App "Cosmic Eye", written by Danail Obreschkow at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research at the University of Western Australia. This app draws inspiration from a progression of increasingly accurate graphical representations of the scales of our Universe, including the classical movie “Powers of Ten” (1977), directed by Charles and Ray Eames, and "Cosmic Zoom" (1968), directed by Eva Szasz. Where possible, it displays real photographs obtained with modern objectives, telescopes, and microscopes. Other views are phenomenal renderings of state-of-the-art computer models. All scientists and sources have given permission and are fully credited in the app."

[Nikolas (Nik)]

Also reported on the abc website here

[Wavytone]

Copycats... If you haven't seen it, watch Powers of 10. I think it's still on YouTube somewhere.

[Atmos (Colin)]

The original (1977) is amazing for the times! Kudos to IBM

[gary]

Originally Posted by Atmos

The original (1977) is amazing for the times! Kudos to IBM

The original "Powers of Ten" was created by Charles and Ray Eames,
husband and wife and two of the most famous designers of the 20th
century. They created the short film on behalf of IBM who was a customer.

In 1998, Powers of Ten was selected for preservation in the United States
National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally,
historically, or aesthetically significant.”

Story and video of "Powers of Ten" here -
http://www.eamesoffice.com/the-work/powers-of-ten/

Charles and Ray created the eclectic Eames Office in Los Angeles
which brought together a talented group of creative people under
the tutelage of the founders.

Web site devoted to the legacy of the Eames Office here -
http://www.eamesoffice.com/eames-office/

One of their most famous creations was the Eames Chair, still
copied and manufactured to this day - http://justcreative.com/wp-content/u...ir-640x357.jpg

[Nikolas (Nik)]

Strangely enough the very next video that pops up after the one on youtube is the power of 10

[gary]

Originally Posted by Nikolas

Strangely enough the very next video that pops up after the one on youtube is the power of 10

The wonderful narration of "Powers of Ten" was done by Philip Morrison.

Morrison was a professor of physics at MIT. During the war, he worked
at Los Alamos on the Manhattan Project where his first task was to calculate
the amount of plutonium required to make a critical assembly
for the Fat Man device. He went on to work on the design of the
complex explosive lenses for the weapon.

Morrison drove the plutonium core to the Trinity test side in the back
seat of a Dodge sedan.

Describing the detonation of the Trinity Gadget,
Morrison said, "Suddenly, not only was there a bright light but where we
were, 10 miles away, there was the heat of the sun on our faces....Then,
only minutes later, the real sun rose and again you felt the same heat to the
face from the sunrise. So we saw two sunrises."

After the war, he was active in non-proliferation.

[janoskiss (Steve H)]

Call me lame but I like how Zemeckis did it in the first couple of minutes of Contact (movie based on Carl Sagan's novel). Instead of a superimposed graphical scale there are snippets of TV and radio broadcasts as you'd hear them at various distances from Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWwhQB3TKXA

[Octane (Humayun)]

Yep, I remember saying at the time that the intro to Contact was worth the ticket price to the cinema alone.

One of my favourite movies.

H