# Powers of Ten **Domain:** Film / Design / Scale **Doc Type:** Short-Film Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[Charles and Ray Eames]], [[Kees Boeke]], [[Cosmic View]], [[IBM]], [[Machine Mediation]] --- ## Definition _Powers of Ten_ is Charles and Ray Eames's 1977 nine-minute film moving by logarithmic powers from a Chicago picnic outward to cosmic scale and inward to subatomic scale. ## Corpus Context The film is a masterwork of [[Scalar Nesting]]. For [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]], it demonstrates how moving images train perception to inhabit scales inaccessible to the unaided body. Its 1968 rough version and IBM sponsorship place it inside the mid-century systems hinge. ## Key Insight **This node connects its historical or conceptual subject to the corpus without treating analogy as proof of direct influence.** ## See Also [[Charles and Ray Eames]], [[Kees Boeke]], [[Cosmic View]], [[IBM]], [[Machine Mediation]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]] - https://www.eamesoffice.com/the-work/powers-of-ten/