I have always been curious of the Droste effect but have never really investigated it until now. It is very cool and I think after playing with the tool, one can really get innovative in how it can be applied. I tried it out with an image of a flower, as seen above, and it turned out really awesome! Try it out and see what you can do and then take it to the next level showing me something I have not seen yet.
The Droste effect is a recursive instancing where an image infinitely contains a smaller copy of itself; like the effect between two mirrors.
It is also know as "mise en abyme" in the art word. Which can be seen in the triptych (a three panel painting) ‘Stefaneschi Triptych’ by Giotto di Bondone in 1320. The Cardinal offers the triptych of St. Peter to St. Peter with in the same painting.
![Droste[1]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Droste.jpg "Droste[1]")
The Droste effect is more of a modern term coined from an image on he box of Droste Cocoa powder. It also could be described as a ‘strange loop’ or a self-referencing instance, which is the cornerstone of fractal geometry. Tools like Photoshop allow you great control of you instance an image with-in itself.
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