THE P WERSOF TEN

By Paul BrinkApril 2010

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.

Taken from five different distances

The one-meter square10 meters

01 meter

A Picnic10 meters

110 meters

Golden Gate Park10 meters

31,000 meters

North and Central America10 meters

710 megameter

Near the limit of our knowledge10 meters

25≈ 1 billion light years

On which photograph do you see the most?

In any photo you see the most!

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

What is 10100 called?

What is 1010100

called?

Plex

Levels of Detail of an Architecture

ApplicationProject

CompanyBusiness Unit

Enterprise Architecture

ProjectArchitecture

SegmentArchitecture

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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Paul Brink

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