Infinite Zoom Coast Illusion

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Joseph Mohmed stumbled upon this awesome continuous animation. It works by the Droste Effect principals, and the illusion is almost identical to Escher's window and Zoomquilt illusion. I was starring at this gif for almost five minutes, and couldn't spot the photoshopped part. I know this was done by a computer, I just can't seem to understand how. Can some of you see the manipulated part? Please comment.

If you like this kind of illusions, I believe you'll have fun time checking Christopher Walken in space, Flying through city animation, Scary Spider illusions, as well as many others that can be found inside Animations category. Enjoy!





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  1. Anonymous kitty cat 

    WOW! Awsome illusion! And it dosent even look like it's going back and forth! Who's Joseph Mohmed? Is he arabic?

  2. Anonymous Evanderiel 

    You can see in the first frame, the part of the coast pasted on the other (the sea is of a different color)

  3. Blogger Todd 

    Just watch the little white bit in the center of the coast. You will see it suddenly change from a white bump to two white sticks. Those white sticks form the two peninsulas that are the most obvious repeating part of the picture. The upper right end of the mountain range changes at the same time. Other things like the road fade in so there is no obvious transition.

  4. Anonymous Anonymous 

    If you look right in the center and try not to focus on anything you will notice the land move right and left awkwardly.

  5. Blogger Maciej 

    I guess whole image is a fractal generated by computer - in world of fractals infinite zooming is nothing unusuall.

  6. Anonymous scmsam 

    I have no idea!!! but its an awesome illusion!

  7. Anonymous Anonymous 

    If you look right in the center and try not to focus on anything in paticular you will see the land move right and left awkwardly.

  8. Blogger Badslats 

    My God

  9. Anonymous Anonymous 

    If you look closely you can see a section of the land from the middle almost all the way to the bottom shift to the right. I saw this in about 3 minutes. I had to spend some time on it though. Really great illusion!!!!!

  10. Blogger art 

    Can someone please make a Garfield one? I'm need to make a site for a middle school project, and I choose Garfield, and a Garfield continuous animation would be perfect!

  11. Anonymous Peter 

    AND, following off from Todd, that's also exactly when the second black spot on the land appears!

  12. Blogger edouard 

    excellent!

  13. Anonymous maisu 

    its just so awesome :o one of the best illusions i've seen!

  14. Anonymous Anonymous 

    Yeah, you can tell it's edited, but it's still awesome!

  15. Anonymous GenSpec 

    It's easy to see if you look at the right spot. If you observe the land between the long, thin peninsula near the top and the larger one to the south (I assume) then you can see the coastline move backwards every time you zoom in on that part. Thats the break point.

  16. Anonymous boy:) 

    there are 5 pic rotating???

  17. Blogger virtualpigmaster 

    you can see one of the white lumps change at one point. its great illusion!

  18. Blogger Ian 

    The whole picture is generating from the end of the black line where it meets the coast.If you look at this point you can see headlands and bays suddenly pop into view.I think the land seems to do the same but it's not so easy to see.
    Grrrate site, I keep spreading the site amounst my friends in the UK. Perhaps it would be interesting to know where in the world people are replying from to see if different countries view pictures in different ways

  19. Blogger Lily 

    This is really cool.

  20. Anonymous Rocco 

    Stunning and original, very well done! Kudos Vurdlak!

  21. Blogger Rosina 

    Good one Todd. I love this illision.

  22. Anonymous Anonymous 

    the thing loops perfectley over and over again since it loops so fast you cant spot the changes

  23. Anonymous Anonymous 

    woah! this is really cool! it looks better than the other ones where you can tell when the first second whatever frames keep coming and going.

  24. Anonymous person 

    i am not impressed at all (worst illusion ever)

  25. Anonymous Anonymous 

    the ocean switches from a lighter color to a darker color.
    back&forth.
    back&forth.




    :D

  26. Anonymous Anonymous 

    If you watch the two wall thingies that scroll to the right, you'll see, on the one on the right side, that a "house" on the right wall will basically dissapear.

  27. Blogger Mauricio Rodriguez Torres 

    It's a fractal.

  28. Blogger Joseph 

    I have some other fractals and a few other illusions I made in Photoshop, but I have a Horrible ISP and am rarely able to upload or e-mail any files.

    Also, kitty cat, I'm Lebanese and Italian.

  29. Anonymous Anonymous 

    Actually, I was very bored with this. I can't believe some people will spend so much time creating things like this. Why not do something more productive, like spend time with your kids ... just on suggestion.

    *yawn*

  30. Anonymous Shauzia 

    i actually stared at this thing for 5 minutes!! AWESOME!!!!!!

    btw-kitty kat, why do u care if someone is arabic or not?

  31. Anonymous kitty cat 

    OMG! joseph ur Lebanese! So am I! I live in beirut. Are u born in Lebanon?
    Also shauzia, i just wanted 2 know coz i'm arabic too so that's all. :D

  32. Blogger Joseph 

    My dad was born in Lebanon and my mom was born in Italy. I was born in Oklahoma :(

  33. Anonymous leguan 

    This is great! So clever!

  34. Anonymous Anonymous 

    Cool. I keep thinking the camera is going to crash into the ground. I think it is photoshoped so that you see two of the same thing (for exmple, the fork in the road) exept that one copy is smaller than the other. Do you get what I'm saying?

  35. Anonymous Anonymous 

    u can see that he photoshopped the coast to have rocks identicle to the coast itself




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