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Recursive
Recursive means "referencing to itself". You'll understand if you look at the images on this page. Recursion is very common in maths and programming. Another example of recursion would be a link on this page to itself.
The Droste Effect |
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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. |
Print Gallery (Prentententoonstelling) - MC Escher, 1956 |
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A visitor in a museum is looking at a print. On this print you can see a boat steaming alongside a city. If you follow the houses of the city to the right, you come to a gallery . . . In which our young man is looking at the print. A self-containing picture ! A nice trivia is that the gallery shows prints from Escher. |  View on Allposters.com |  Escherizing Applet Eschers "Print Gallery" explained. |
| Escher and the Droste effect About self-containing images and the maths behind Escher's Print Gallery. |
Drawing Hands (Tekenen) - MC Escher, 1948 |
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Escher wanted to show the illusion of a drawing as directly as he could. It looks like two threedimensional hands are drawing each other on a piece of paper. Which, in turn, is drawn on another piece. I wonder : would this be Eschers hand, and the pen he was using at the moment ? | | View on Allposters.com |
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