# Powers-of-ten zoom from quarks to cosmos

> One unbroken 94-second zoom from three quarks out to the observable universe, 42 powers of ten. The creator told Claude Fable 5.5 to pick its own idea; no video model was used, and the visuals and music are code.

- Kind: Video
- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/powers-ten-zoom-from-quarks-to-universe/
- Ready-to-use agent handoff: https://meetreference.com/v/powers-ten-zoom-from-quarks-to-universe/agent.txt
- Exact prompt as plain text: https://meetreference.com/v/powers-ten-zoom-from-quarks-to-universe/prompt.txt
- Authorship: AI-made, per the source
- Made with: Not stated
- Model: Claude Fable 5.5
- Built with: not stated
- Style: Math & science; powers of ten, continuous zoom, science, procedural, generative music, scale
- Length and format: 2 min, 16:9 (1920x1080 source)
- Shared by @imjustnewatai in X, Oct 3, 2026: https://x.com/imjustnewatai/status/2106190594775097663
- Prompt fidelity: Paraphrased. The creator described the prompt in their own words rather than publishing it.

## Before you start

Guidance from Reference, separate from the creator's instructions.

1. Read the reference and inspect the project, installed libraries, and available agent skills before writing code. Reuse suitable tools already present.
2. Prefer the creator-reported libraries and skills when they fit the task. Explain what useful additions help with, and install missing project dependencies or relevant skills from official sources when the environment and the user's existing permissions allow it. Respect the project's package manager and setup rules; do not ask again for routine setup already authorized.
3. Distinguish tools used by the creator from your own recommendations. A listed tool is not automatically required, and an empty tools or requirements list means the setup is unknown, not that nothing is needed.
4. Ask concise questions when missing inputs or choices materially affect the result: paid services, credentials, the user's assets, or a different production approach. Use existing answers and permissions; continue independent work while waiting.
5. If a useful library, skill, or service cannot be installed or used, explain an available alternative and its expected effect on quality, features, or effort. Get the user's choice before a material compromise; otherwise state the fallback and continue. Never silently simplify the result or claim to have used a tool you did not use.

## Recreating this video

These are the creator's published instructions, unedited.

To adapt it: Keep "pick its own video idea" and change what it should make people say, or name a subject for it to pick within.

## Prompt

```text
pick its own video idea, one that would make people say "I didn't know AI could do that."
```

## What it looks like

Written by Reference from the video frames, not by the creator.

A dark scientific zoom where each stop is a glowing, soft-focus subject with a scale readout, from a carbon nucleus out past Earth and the Milky Way to the observable universe.

- Color: Deep violet, teal and near-black backgrounds, with glowing peach, ice blue, cell green, city-light gold and starlight white.
- Type: A large bold number and unit bottom left ("8.4 femtometers", "104 thousand light-years") in white and yellow, a small serif caption under it, and a powers-of-ten scale with an exponent bottom right; a wide caps title "THE LONG WAY OUT" at the end.
- Framing: 16:9 frames with one centred subject in shallow focus and a constant readout bar along the bottom; every frame keeps the same layout so only the subject and the scale change.
- Sound: Music made in code, the creator says.
- Structure: A carbon nucleus, DNA, a skin cell, a waving figure of a person, Earth's night lights, the solar system with Jupiter and Saturn labelled, the Milky Way with "You are here", the observable universe, and the closing title beside the figure.

Storyboard, nine frames spread across the video: https://meetreference.com/media/powers-ten-zoom-from-quarks-to-universe/storyboard.webp

- Frame 1 at 5.2s: https://meetreference.com/media/powers-ten-zoom-from-quarks-to-universe/f1.webp
- Frame 2 at 15.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/powers-ten-zoom-from-quarks-to-universe/f2.webp
- Frame 3 at 26.1s: https://meetreference.com/media/powers-ten-zoom-from-quarks-to-universe/f3.webp
- Frame 4 at 36.6s: https://meetreference.com/media/powers-ten-zoom-from-quarks-to-universe/f4.webp
- Frame 5 at 47.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/powers-ten-zoom-from-quarks-to-universe/f5.webp
- Frame 6 at 57.5s: https://meetreference.com/media/powers-ten-zoom-from-quarks-to-universe/f6.webp
- Frame 7 at 67.9s: https://meetreference.com/media/powers-ten-zoom-from-quarks-to-universe/f7.webp
- Frame 8 at 78.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/powers-ten-zoom-from-quarks-to-universe/f8.webp
- Frame 9 at 88.8s: https://meetreference.com/media/powers-ten-zoom-from-quarks-to-universe/f9.webp

## How it was made, per the creator

- Notes: The model chose the concept itself. The creator says no video model was used and that the visuals and the music are all code. A different creator's powers-of-ten film is also in the library.

> No video model. The visuals and the music are all code.
> (@imjustnewatai)

## Links

- Watch: https://x.com/imjustnewatai/status/2106190594775097663
- Original post: https://x.com/imjustnewatai/status/2106190594775097663
- Another powers-of-ten zoom in the library: https://meetreference.com/v/powers-ten-zoom-from-bacterial-cell-into/