Wednesday's class 11/4/2010

On Wednesday we saw a video called "The Powers of Ten". This video was made by Charles and Ray Eames.  I found it very interesting how they use the power of ten and the effects it has as the camera zooms out. I liked how they zoomed out til we got all the way into outer space. Another part that was cool was how as we went to outer space the camera started to zoom in all the way to the beginning with two people and it started to zoom in to a proton of nucleus of carbon atom beneath the skin of a human hand. Another thing that I liked was the different learning facts. For example in outer space they talked about the planets, the solar system and the stars. But when they zoom in you get to learn about the hand and how it relates to the atmosphere of the galaxy. There are clusters of stars and galaxies throughout space and then you reach just darkness. At the same time, there are clusters of cells in the hand until you reach the carbon atom and then there is darkness. I thought it was interesting how the two were tied together.