August 17, 2007
The Divine Technique
PlayThis picture depicts a concept, which is a very powerful programming technique.
Identify the technique. Also, tell us what is special about this picture.
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Cracked By:
Srikanth, jayanth, BiGFooT, Hema, abhinav, Sagnik,Deepshikha, Bikiran Goswami, piezocake, Shashank, Archana, Poornima and yaksha
Hema and Poornima got the specialty part. Abhinav came very close.
Answer:
“Iteration is human, recursion is divine “
The answer is recursion. The Droste Effect.
Although there are many such recursive logos and pictures, the effect is named after the Dutch cocoa brand Droste and this picture is seen on the Droste box.
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To iterate is human, to recurse, divine.
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The picture is a recursive picture(described as Droste effect, named after Droste, a Dutch brand of cocoa, whose box has a picture of a nurse carrying a serving tray with a cup of hot chocolate and a box of the same brand of cocoa.)
The picture is a visual form of recursion known as the Droste effect. It is named after Droste, a Dutch brand of cocoa.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droste_effect
recursion of the image is only on the box and not on the cup.