pow­ers of ten :: charles and ray eames from bac­te­ri­asleep on Vimeo.

Pow­ers of Ten is a 1968 Amer­i­can doc­u­men­tary short film writ­ten and directed by Ray Eames and her hus­band, Charles Eames, rere­leased in 1977. The film depicts the rel­a­tive scale of the Uni­verse in fac­tors of ten (see also log­a­rith­mic scale and order of mag­ni­tude). The film is an adap­ta­tion of the 1957 book Cos­mic View by Kees Boeke, and more recently is the basis of a new book ver­sion. Both adap­ta­tions, film and book, fol­low the form of the Boeke orig­i­nal, adding color and pho­tog­ra­phy to the black and white draw­ings employed by Boeke in his sem­i­nal work.