Monday, November 16, 2009

ZOOM

Travelers never came through space to visit the Earth. They had no need.

They had found universes in grains of sand.

- Greg Bear, Blood Music

I am so glad this did not exist back in my University Days. I can only imagine the hordes of weed-baked longhairs gazing into their computer monitors while thin streams of spittle leak out of the corners of their mouths...

Click here: ZOOMQUILT

...and zoom happily away. You can control your speed - forward or backward - by using the control bar on the left. Centering the bar stops the motion. You can hide the control panel by placing your cursor in the right-hand side of your monitor screen.

The best way I can describe it? It’s like Hieronymus Bosch piloting the Millennium Falcon.

[Tip o’ th’ Elisson fedora to Jerry Foster for the link.]

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