ffmpeg - How to change the filter-paramaters depending on time oder framenumber? - dynamic

Hallo to all userse and helpers here in this forum! Thank you, i am new and i have found allready a lot of solutions.
Now I want to ask, if someone can help me:
I have a Movie about 30 seconds made of 1 image.
Now I want to pixelate depending on time or framenumber - every time a litlle bit less.
My code so far:
ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -vf scale=iw/n:ih/n,scale=niw:nih:flags=neighbor out.mp4
where n should be the framenumber 1 to 900.
this scould also be t+1 for slower change.
the stars are gone - so i mean n times iw:n times ih:
error-massage:
undefined constant or missing '(' in 'n'
error when evaluating the expression 'ih/n'
maybe the expression for out_w:'w/n' or for out_h:'ih/n' is self-referencing.
failed to configure output pad on paresed_scale_0
error reinitializing filters!
failed to inject frame into filter network: invalid argument
error while processing the decoded data for stream #0:0
Do you have some suggestion plaese - Thank you in Advance

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