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Cosmic View has, likewise, inspired the movie Powers of Ten produced in 1977 by the designers at the Eames Office, all of whom animate the essay by Kees Boeke, traversing cosmic scales, from 10^-6 angstroms to 10⁸ light-years. The designers depict a couple picnicking at Burnham Park near Soldier Field in Chicago, and again, like Boeke, the designers zoom away from the hand of a man, asleep, the view moving upward, until reaching the very edge of all observable galaxiae; and then the designers zoom down into the hand of the man, asleep, the view moving inward, until reaching the very edge of all observable minutiae.¹¹ The nested frames of squares demarcate each magnitude traversed, receding or widening, as the film undergoes its recursions (hinting perhaps at the Droste effect, if we choose to mistake the film itself for the dream of the picnicker).