The Droste Effect

[Rayaan]

The Droste effect — known as mise en abyme in art — is the effect of a picture appearing within itself, in a place where a similar picture would realistically be expected to appear. The appearance is recursive: the smaller version contains an even smaller version of the picture, and so on. Only in theory could this go on forever; practically, it continues only as long as the resolution of the picture allows, which is relatively short, since each iteration geometrically reduces the picture's size. It is a visual example of a strange loop, a self-referential system of instancing which is the cornerstone of fractal geometry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droste_effect


Post more of these if you like.

[Rayaan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrVCI4HrdqU

[Minimalist]

[Rayaan]

Hell yeah, brother.

[Rayaan]

And now, a couple of animated droste effects.

[Dragonetti]

crazy!

[Kayenneh]

I don't even.. Cool, but my head hurts a bit

[Whateverist]

This reminds me of self-similar geometric shapes. What are those called .. oh yeah, fractals. But with the organic shapes, all the more cool. Thanks for sharing.

[Tartarus Sauce]

MC ESCHER STYLE!

[rexbeccarox]

I love this shit!