Anyone have an image to illustrate this? I can remember Andy Wahol's Campbell soup tin.
The Droste effect is a specific kind of recursive picture, one that in heraldry is termed "mise en abyme." An image exhibiting the Droste effect depicts a smaller version of itself in a place where a similar picture would realistically be expected to appear. This smaller version then depicts an even smaller version of itself in the same place, 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 exponentially reduces the picture’s size. It is a visual example of a strange loop, a self-referential system of instancing…
The Droste Effect.
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The Droste Effect.
"…I hate how I don’t feel real enough unless people are watching." — Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
The Droste Effect.
jones jones;1379869 wrote: Anyone have an image to illustrate this? I can remember Andy Wahol's Campbell soup tin.
The Droste effect is a specific kind of recursive picture, one that in heraldry is termed "mise en abyme." An image exhibiting the Droste effect depicts a smaller version of itself in a place where a similar picture would realistically be expected to appear. This smaller version then depicts an even smaller version of itself in the same place, 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 exponentially reduces the picture’s size. It is a visual example of a strange loop, a self-referential system of instancing…
A search for "recursive images" brought up :-
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The Droste effect is a specific kind of recursive picture, one that in heraldry is termed "mise en abyme." An image exhibiting the Droste effect depicts a smaller version of itself in a place where a similar picture would realistically be expected to appear. This smaller version then depicts an even smaller version of itself in the same place, 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 exponentially reduces the picture’s size. It is a visual example of a strange loop, a self-referential system of instancing…
A search for "recursive images" brought up :-
Attached files