Perpetual Zoom Illusion

This one is good for several seconds of enjoyment.


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theres this slight jump is that necessary for the illusion to work, you think?

No, the jump isn't neccesary. Just an artifact of a poor edit. This is basically an animation zooming in on a fractal type curve.