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By Paul BrinkApril 2010

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Five photographs of a man lying in a park in San Francisco

Based on a 1977 American documentary short film written and directed by Ray Eames

and her husband, Charles Eames. The film depicts the relative scale of the Universe in

factors of ten. The film is an adaptation of the 1957 book Cosmic View by Kees Boeke.

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Taken from five different distances

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The one-meter square10 meters

01 meter

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A Picnic10 meters

110 meters

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Golden Gate Park10 meters

31,000 meters

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North and Central America10 meters

710 megameter

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Near the limit of our knowledge10 meters

25≈ 1 billion light years

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On which photograph do you see the most?

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In any photo you see the most!

On the first you see many details. On the last you see an overview, but no details.

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What is 10100 called?

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What is 1010100

called?

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Plex

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Levels of Detail of an Architecture

ApplicationProject

CompanyBusiness Unit

Enterprise

Architecture

Project

Architecture

Segment

Architecture

Like the five photographs of the man lying in the park, an architecture can be defined on different levels of details

External

Environment

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