# Photo — Unzoom bounce

One photograph re-stamped inside itself at shrinking scales, echoes accumulating until the frame becomes a stepped corridor into the picture.

Source: https://steevepommier.com/motion/photo-unzoom-bounce/
Section: Motion
Published: 2026-07-07
Tags: 2d

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A single photo is drawn over itself again and again, each copy scaled a notch
further, so its edges pile into staircase contours converging on the centre — a
zoom echo frozen into geometry. The echoes are dealt out progressively across
each picture's turn in the loop, and an option twists successive copies toward
a quarter-turn spiral.

The visible count is mapped from a selectable progression curve, and a
direction switch decides whether the stack reads as diving into the image or
pulling out of it. Every copy is the same cover-fit draw with only its scale
eased along the sequence; the corridor illusion is nothing but repeated
cropping of identical pixels.