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minoanmissIn honor of my day off \o/ and dedicated to reesespiecescat :D
One of the nifty things about using a computer program to draw has been creating recursive images using c&p rather than laborious redrawing. So I've been reading up on recursive images, not least to find more recursive image ideas to draw.
European cocoa brand Droste uses this effect on their packaging -- note the image on the box on the tray. One day I'll get my hands on an actual hard copy box (and also see if the cocoa is tasty).
According to Wikipedia this 14th century Italian triptych is the first known recursive image that contains an exact miniature of itself, with that miniature containing a miniature, and so on.
This XKCD comic illustrates how, in practicality, one can only go down so many iterations before th nature of matter means there's not enough to carry the information of the image.
Recursive images can be very simple, but they don't have to be.
This logo is a partial recursion (to the artist's relief, the bunny's arm cuts off where all the other recursions would be)
One way to create such an image is by including an image display in its camera's field of view. A few more along those lines:
Perhaps maybe not this last but I couldn't resist Mr. Colbert.
One common computer-generated way of creating recursive images is to spiralize them. The spiral appears to vanish into the 'abyss' (the French term is 'miss en abyme', 'into the abyss').
Another way (which I like better, and not just because it's how I make mine) is to cause the image to be a discrete part of itself. People reading periodicals on which they appear:
Portraits and other images that contain themselves:
images where a miniature copy is a component of the larger:
Inspired by all of this I've made a few recursive images of my own. And of course I'm on the lookout for that lost wormhole.
reesespiecescat :DOne of the nifty things about using a computer program to draw has been creating recursive images using c&p rather than laborious redrawing. So I've been reading up on recursive images, not least to find more recursive image ideas to draw.
European cocoa brand Droste uses this effect on their packaging -- note the image on the box on the tray. One day I'll get my hands on an actual hard copy box (and also see if the cocoa is tasty).
According to Wikipedia this 14th century Italian triptych is the first known recursive image that contains an exact miniature of itself, with that miniature containing a miniature, and so on.
This XKCD comic illustrates how, in practicality, one can only go down so many iterations before th nature of matter means there's not enough to carry the information of the image.
Recursive images can be very simple, but they don't have to be.
This logo is a partial recursion (to the artist's relief, the bunny's arm cuts off where all the other recursions would be)
One way to create such an image is by including an image display in its camera's field of view. A few more along those lines:
Perhaps maybe not this last but I couldn't resist Mr. Colbert.
One common computer-generated way of creating recursive images is to spiralize them. The spiral appears to vanish into the 'abyss' (the French term is 'miss en abyme', 'into the abyss').
Another way (which I like better, and not just because it's how I make mine) is to cause the image to be a discrete part of itself. People reading periodicals on which they appear:
Portraits and other images that contain themselves:
images where a miniature copy is a component of the larger:
Inspired by all of this I've made a few recursive images of my own. And of course I'm on the lookout for that lost wormhole.
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Date: 2017-07-20 03:32 am (UTC)Ann O. [eg]
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Date: 2017-07-20 10:04 pm (UTC)Ah, but would you write a song about it? :D
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Date: 2017-07-21 02:19 am (UTC)Ann O.
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Date: 2017-07-20 05:28 am (UTC)And omg i love your drawings so much they're so cute. My favourite is the girl and the little girl holding up images of each other. :D
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Date: 2017-07-20 09:40 pm (UTC)Woot! I'm so glad you enjoyed this!
That particular drawing was my birthday card for my roommate![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
gingicat: it's a picture of us as little girls. :D
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Date: 2017-07-20 08:39 pm (UTC)beams at you a lot
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Date: 2017-07-25 07:42 pm (UTC)That is hilarious aand delightful. :D