First, I want to greet all the readers of Pixzii a Happy New Year, I hope you all have a prosperous new year. In today’s post I’m going to show you some really cool images done in “Droste effect.” “Droste effect,” is named after a 1904 package of Droste brand cocoa. The Droste effect illustrates a smaller version of itself in a place where a similar photograph would realistically be expected to show. Only in hypothesis could this go on without end, but virtually it will go on only as long as the resolution of the image permits, which is relatively short, since each cycle of repetition is exponentially diminish the image’s size.
A perfect example of the Droste effect can be simply produced by placing two mirrors in front of each other. Another technique would be to shoot one’s own television with a video camera, while showing the output of the video camera on the same television.Let’s view now some of these awesome droste effect images.
12/31/2009
#1
dabbe me dabba
nice art
12/31/2009
#2
they’re all fantastic pics
i enjoyed them all very much
01/01/2010
#3
Happy new year guys, thanks for dropping by =)
01/01/2010
#4
This is quite interesting. Some of them are outstanding. Thanks for sharing.
01/01/2010
#5
Very cool images, Thanks
01/01/2010
#6
Happy New Year to you; thanks for a great site
01/01/2010
#7
awesome. i tried to do this, but couldn’t.
01/02/2010
#8
Oh, Impossible Picture :-O
01/02/2010
#9
hello my name is shawn and I love tricky photo’s.
01/03/2010
#10
nice and amazing pictures!
01/04/2010
#11
obvious message…
that the world not like what we think.
01/04/2010
#12
Excellent creativity………….
01/04/2010
#13
Awesome pics! Maybe you should post a tutorial on how to do this effect.
01/04/2010
#14
Very cool art! The bicycle (last one) can make you really dizzy if you look too long
Retweeted for you, too!
01/04/2010
#15
Amazing :] :] :] It made me smile
01/04/2010
#16
This is so interesting, I’d love to read a step by step on how any of these are actually done.
01/05/2010
#17
Truly enjoy reading your posts on your site. They are always interesting to read. Will keep your website in my bookmarks now. Thanks.
01/05/2010
#18
Very beautiful work!
01/06/2010
#19
thankx, i needed a acid flashback.
01/06/2010
#20
Lovely!
<how can I send it to someone?
01/07/2010
#21
Very Nice Illustration
01/07/2010
#22
Amazing illusions. Thanks!
01/07/2010
#23
This are fantastic photos.. love it!
01/07/2010
#24
All of these images, apart from the chess board and the top-hat man, are more than simply the Droste effect. Rather than just an image recursively *embedded* into itself, these images are warped to recursively *merge* in to themselves, forming those distinctive infinite spirals. This would be more appropriately termed the Esher effect, becuse it was first created by graphic artist M.C Escher in a pictire called ‘Print Gallery’. This is a great website about Escher and the Droste effect:
http://escherdroste.math.leidenuniv.nl/
It is possible to create your own Escher effect pictures using GIMP with the Mathmap plugin, you can find a tutorial here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshsommers/sets/72157594515046947/
01/07/2010
#25
Funny pictures… I liked them very much.
01/07/2010
#26
@orgone Thanks for the link Orgone. I should have post a link too for those curious to know how to create their own Droste effect.
01/10/2010
#27
boring, life is too short for such tedium
01/10/2010
#28
Brilliant ! thanx
01/11/2010
#29
I especially liked the one where the two guys were each showing a picture to a camera of the scene being photographed at the time. Found you thru a stumble.
01/14/2010
#30
Great pics! Thanks for sharing them!
01/15/2010
#31
It’s great pictures and amazing trick. I’m still wondering how to created. Usually, I only use Gimp for simple image editing since I don’t have paid software such as Adobe Photoshop. from bathroom fan.
01/16/2010
#32
great work
thank you
01/17/2010
#33
What is this…..its amazing!! I always thought about such photography……
01/20/2010
#34
Keep posting stuff like this i really like it
01/21/2010
#35
Hello
Wow those are really wonderful illusion images which I have never seen before like all these.Thank you very much for showing us these images.I really like it.
08/18/2010
#36
Very very beautiful