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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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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August 17th, 2007 at 9:46 am, GMT +0000 ( 1187343981 )
To iterate is human, to recurse, divine.
August 17th, 2007 at 9:50 am, GMT +0000 ( 1187344244 )
i think you mean recursive loops (infinite here) .. cos the pic shows a woman holding a box and a cup with the same image over and over again…
August 17th, 2007 at 9:54 am, GMT +0000 ( 1187344496 )
Recursion methinks ?
August 17th, 2007 at 10:06 am, GMT +0000 ( 1187345205 )
It represents Recursion.
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.)
August 17th, 2007 at 10:41 am, GMT +0000 ( 1187347296 )
This symbolizes the Droste Effect ! ie recursive imaging , one droste cocoa logo inside the other . popularised by MC escher. Programming technique : recursive programming , say one function calling another ( eg to calculate the factorial of a number )
August 17th, 2007 at 10:56 am, GMT +0000 ( 1187348185 )
The programming technique is recursion
August 17th, 2007 at 3:10 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1187363439 )
The concept is recursion. I don’t know what is special about the pic.. will wait for someone to answer that
August 17th, 2007 at 8:00 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1187380813 )
looks like … recursion …
August 17th, 2007 at 11:21 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1187392902 )
Recursion, seems like. How about “first recursive picture on the internet” for the second part ? ;)
August 18th, 2007 at 3:13 am, GMT +0000 ( 1187406836 )
Recursion..?
August 18th, 2007 at 4:57 am, GMT +0000 ( 1187413069 )
I guess its recursion.
August 18th, 2007 at 6:16 am, GMT +0000 ( 1187417809 )
The technique is Recursion!
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
August 18th, 2007 at 9:41 am, GMT +0000 ( 1187430072 )
recursion. and whats special………?
recursion of the image is only on the box and not on the cup.