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− | This | + | This is a parody of the short documentary [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers_of_Ten "Powers of 10"]: the original one can be found at http://www.powersof10.com/film |
Like in the documentary, the comic features a man and a woman on a blanket, during a picnic. Then, the zoom level of the image should change... but, while in the documentary it changes by 10 time at every frame (hence the name "Powers of 10": 1x, 10x, 100x ...), in the comic powers of 1 are used: since every power of 1 is always 1, the image doesn't change at all. | Like in the documentary, the comic features a man and a woman on a blanket, during a picnic. Then, the zoom level of the image should change... but, while in the documentary it changes by 10 time at every frame (hence the name "Powers of 10": 1x, 10x, 100x ...), in the comic powers of 1 are used: since every power of 1 is always 1, the image doesn't change at all. | ||
So, a series of identical image is shown. | So, a series of identical image is shown. | ||
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Revision as of 18:01, 23 August 2012
Powers of One |
Title text: It's kinda Zen when you think about it, if you don't think too hard. |
Explanation
This is a parody of the short documentary "Powers of 10": the original one can be found at http://www.powersof10.com/film
Like in the documentary, the comic features a man and a woman on a blanket, during a picnic. Then, the zoom level of the image should change... but, while in the documentary it changes by 10 time at every frame (hence the name "Powers of 10": 1x, 10x, 100x ...), in the comic powers of 1 are used: since every power of 1 is always 1, the image doesn't change at all.
So, a series of identical image is shown.
Transcript
[A sequence, presumably continuing endlessly in both directions, of identical images of a couple lying on a chequered blanket, with a picnic basket, on grass. Each image has a rule at the bottom giving measurements in meters, with the scale in terms of 1 to a particular power. The powers visible are the -1th (part), 0th-2nd, and 3rd (part).]
Discussion
I got the math joke but did not know about the documentary, very interesting. 184.66.160.91 04:26, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
I want a "Powers of " documentary. 172.68.132.95 08:21, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
- Basiclly it will in each iteration rotate image 90 degrees. /*
- Ans so on */ 172.69.55.52 09:28, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
- What about a "Powers of 2i" documentary? ColorfulGalaxy (talk) 08:59, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
- This is basically a "Powers of ((i)^2)^2" documentary. B for brain (talk) (youtube channel wobsite (supposed to be a blag) 18:28, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
Is it a coincidence, that this is selected for comic 271, while 2, 7 and 1 are the first digits of "e", which is also a very common base in Exponentiation? --Lupo (talk) 14:02, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
I once remember seeing someone wrongly saying "one to the fourth power" instead of "ten to the fourth power",[citation needed] probably on a show or a movie. I don't remember the name of the show. Edit: It may be cited on Numberphile. --ColorfulGalaxy (talk) 08:59, 13 December 2022 (UTC)