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The Droste Effect

This is an old and quite famous example of a self-referencing / self-containing image. This was the design for a box of Dutch cocoa. On the box is a nurse carrying the same box. And on that box we see the nurse again ... and so on.

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Last modified on Friday, February 29 2008