Cosmic Eye is a short film and iOS app developed by ICRAR astrophysicist Danail Obreschkow in 2012. It shows the largest and smallest well known scales of the universe by gradually zooming out from and then back into the face of a woman called "Louise". According to the creator, the film and app were inspired by the essay Cosmic View (1957) and the short films Cosmic Zoom (1968) and Powers of Ten (1977), but use state-of-the-art technology and new scientific imaging and computer simulations. Developed in 2012 for local teaching and outreach purposes, Cosmic Eye suddenly attracted 40 million views in just ten days on the Facebook group page of "The Science Scoop" in April 2016.