Droste Effect
A Droste Effect is a term with Dutch origins that refers to a recursive image where seemingly never-ending smaller versions of an image appears within the image itself. Some, such as the one below, have an almost strange and uneasy feel to them. I suppose that this is what infinity looks like.
Continue reading this post to learn a little more about the origins of the term “Droste Effect”.
The name comes from an old Dutch cocoa brand called Droste. On the box was a woman holding a tray with the same box on it… on that box was a woman holding a tray with the same box on it… etc.