# What was that "zoom enhance" video from several years ago? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 15, 2019, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-that-zoom-enhance-video-from-several-years-ago/841804 "2019-10-15T16:17:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-that-zoom-enhance-video-from-several-years-ago/841804/1 "2019-10-15T16:17:33Z")
I remember seeing either a short youtube video, or an endless image stream, that was the ultimate in zoom-enhance. I can’t remember whether is was animation or real images. It went something like this: It started with an image of a building, and the camera zooms in, and there is a mirror on the wall. The POV zooms in more and we see the reflection of the building behind the original photographer. And the zoom continues, and we see a person standing in the window, and in the person’s eyeball a reflection, and then we zoom in more on that reflection and see another building, and then we see a reflective surface on another building, and then the zoom continues on and on, until the image is miles away, and well beyond any real-world resolution. It might even comeback to the original person’s POV, so that he ultimately sees himself in all the reflections. Does anyone remember that? I can’t think of a proper search term to look for it, especially if I may have some details wrong. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-that-zoom-enhance-video-from-several-years-ago/841804/2 "2019-10-15T16:25:13Z")
It was the beginning of the movie _Limitless_ ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-that-zoom-enhance-video-from-several-years-ago/841804/3 "2019-10-15T16:35:29Z")
What you’re looking for is an “infinite zoom” video. I don’t recall the one you’re talking about (like, I don’t remember that there was a “popular” video of this), but the technique has been around for a while. In recent memory, the most widely-viewed were prolly the ones in the 2011 film _Limitless_. ETA: Had the reply window open while I did some searching and _DPRK_ got there first. [thumbs up] ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-that-zoom-enhance-video-from-several-years-ago/841804/4 "2019-10-15T16:36:30Z")
If it’s an animation with a person seeing himself, it could be [this modified Escher](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtqmDZrpfCA) ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-that-zoom-enhance-video-from-several-years-ago/841804/5 "2019-10-15T16:38:57Z")
_Red Dwarf_ also spoofed this. [Red Dwarf Blade Runner Esper Sequence - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aINa6tg3fo) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-that-zoom-enhance-video-from-several-years-ago/841804/6 "2019-10-15T17:07:20Z")
Not Limitless. That’s not the same. It’s just straight ahead zoom zoom zoom. Red Dwarf is the same thing as I remember, but comically. The Escher one is clever! ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-that-zoom-enhance-video-from-several-years-ago/841804/7 "2019-10-15T18:32:00Z")
A few versions are [here](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/zoom-and-enhance). ([Sometimes zoom and enhance actually works](https://soranews24.com/2019/10/12/idol-stalker-figures-out-where-his-target-lives-from-the-reflection-in-her-eyes-in-social-media-photo/).) ---
**Author:** ![johnspartan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-that-zoom-enhance-video-from-several-years-ago/841804/8 "2019-10-17T19:55:17Z")
You might be referring to this one: A YouTube collection of some good examples of the cliche. JFGI if that’s the case, as I just got it by searching zoom and enhance youtube.