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{{trope|wppage=Droste effect}}
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{{quote|''I can see '''forever'''!''|[[Memetic Mutation|Various people, upon seeing a droste image]]}}
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See also [[Nested Stories]] and [[Dream Within a Dream]], which has the layering but not the self-similarity. Also see [[Recursive Reality]] which is this trope on a cosmic level.
Named for the [[media:Droste cocoa.jpg|food company that was famous for using this trope]] in their packaging and their ads. See also the [
{{examples|Examples }}▼
== [[Advertising]] ==
* Seen on several cereal packages. You know, the type that feature a picture of somebody having breakfast. Said breakfast of course centers on the cereal, with a package proudly displayed. On that package, we see somebody having said cereals for breakfast. And so on...
* [http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r104/CarlotaCores/Doces-1.jpg Royal Baking Powder.]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140213230755/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e9/Land_O%27Lakes_logo.png Land O'Lakes Butter.]
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Urusei Yatsura]] 2: Beautiful Dreamer'' had a scene where Ataru is in a room in the school building, looks through the doorway, and sees on the other side of the door the same room that he's in, complete with himself and the doorway, and past that doorway is the same room again, etc. (It seems that space itself is forming loops; earlier there was a scene where we see Mendo run up the stairs past the "camera", only to reappear coming up the same stair and go past the camera again.)
== [[Art]] ==
* [[
== [[
* In comics, it's called an [http://comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=42041&zoom=4 infinity] [http://comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=66581&zoom=4 cover].
* An issue of ''[[Runaways (
* The cover of the ''[[
* Used in ''[[The Beano]]'' back
* The cover of the one-shot ''[[
* The cover of ''[[Superman|Action Comics]] #500'' (published in 1979) depicts Lois Lane and Supergirl showing Superman an oversized copy of that very issue, whose cover shows them holding up an oversized copy of the the issue, whose cover.... you get the idea.
== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[
* Happens in ''[[
* While not in the film itself, the [https://web.archive.org/web/20141011220213/http://chasenchamberlain.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/memento.jpg box art] for ''[[
* ''[[Airplane!]]'' uses this when the air traffic controller, McCroskey, adopts a thoughtful pose in front of a framed photograph of himself holding the same pose. ''[[Airplane 2 The Sequel]]'' then cranks this [[Up to Eleven]] by posing McCroskey in front of a framed photo of himself posing in front of the framed photograph of himself.
* In ''[[Planet of the Apes|Escape from the Planet of the Apes]]'', the President's Science Advisor uses one during a TV interview as an illustration for his "[[Handwaved|explanation]]" of '''possibly''' how Cornelius and Zira wound up [[Time Travel|traveling back in time]].
== [[Literature]] ==
* "Jack's Story" from ''[[The Stinky Cheese Man]]'' could be considered a print version of this, as it features an infinite regression of the same story [[Nested Story|nested]] inside itself.
** [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in that he's (Jack, that is,) telling this story to a ''[[
* In ''[[The Mouse and His Child]]'', much is made of a particular dog food label depicting a
* The cover of the Little Golden Book ''My Christmas Treasury'' features a little boy and girl, and a cat and dog, sitting on a rug, reading a copy of the same book which features a little boy and girl, and a cat and dog, sitting on a rug...
* The ''[[Ramona Quimby]]'' book ''Ramona Forever'' gets its title from a scene where Ramona does this with the angled mirrors in a dressing room.
* The cover of the paperback edition of ''[[The Big U]]'' by [[Neal Stephenson]] depicts a coed reading a copy of ''The Big U'', whose cover depicts the coed reading a copy of ''The Big U''.
== [[Live
* The first episode of ''[[
** ''[[Square One TV]]'' did something similar to teach viewers the concept of infinity.
* During Steve Martin's "I'm Me" song on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', he notices a monitor showing live footage of him, thus creating this effect. "It's me, watching me, watching me!"
* In ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]'', Decade's [[Transformation Sequence]] into his [[Super Mode|Complete Form]] invokes elements of this. Decade has a card of himself in Complete Form located on his forehead. Which has a card of that on its forehead, and so on. The sequence [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJjxr3-b7_4 repeatedly zooms in on Decade's forehead of infinity] until he's suited up.
* In the end of an episode of ''[[Rutland Weekend Television]]'', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbK4N445WBk one of the announcers] is reading the credits for the show. The credits in the script he's reading stop around a certain point, however, so he runs up to a television monitor showing the show so he can read the credits on the ''screen'' out loud instead. The monitor, behind the credits, shows him reading from the screen which, behind the credits, shows him reading from the screen...however, he doesn't read quickly enough. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* Stephen Colbert's portrait on ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' is slowly becoming one of these, as every season{{when}} he has a new portrait painted... where he's posing in front of the previous portrait.
* In an episode of ''[[Mad Men]]'', Sally and Glen (kids) have a [[Seinfeldian Conversation]] where she points out this is the case with the Land o' Lakes butter label, and says it scares her.
* In one episode of the live show ''[[
== [[Music]] ==
* The last scene of [[
* [[The New Pornographers]] use TV monitors to create this effect in their [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBAUQaj6EJo video] for "Letter From An Occupant."
* The cover of [[Pink Floyd]]'s ''Ummagumma'' uses a variation: a photo of the band with a smaller photo on the wall containing a smaller photo containing a smaller photo. However, each successive photo shows the various band members occupying each other's places.
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* The video for [[The White Stripes]]' ''Seven Nation Army''.
* The video feedback method referenced below is one of the special effects used in the music video for Queen's ''Bohemian Rhapsody''.
* Every year, ''[[ESPN]] The Magazine'' has an issue called "Revenge of the Jocks" where a famous athlete takes over as editor for that issue. The front cover features the athlete in question tearing up last year's magazine, which features last year's cover athlete tearing up the previous year's magazine, etc. etc.▼
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The card
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''Digimon Rumble Arena'' (a [[Fighting Game]] spinoff from [[Digimon]]) featured one arena with a copy of the screen displayed as a colored hologram near the top of the arena, and the Droste effect varies in depth according to the camera's current position.
* Although several ''[[Mario Kart]]'' games have tracks with monitors displaying live race footage as it happens, the size and placement of these monitors around the track generally prevent a Droste effect from developing.
* In ''[[Portal (
** After ''[[Spiritual Predecessor|Narbacular Drop]]'', that is.
* The first-person "tunnel" effect in the final levels of ''[[Super Star Wars]]: Return Of The Jedi'' were rendered using an analogous method, in which as one tile increased in size, another, smaller (and usually identical) tile appeared inside it, and so on. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuH4HZn52FM See it here.]
* ''[[
** Moreover, a glitch/repeatable [[Good Bad Bugs|exploit]] adding more art and law of large numbers ''make'' it happen. The first reported was the statue aptly named "Planepacked", among "an ungodly amount of items built into it" including 73 images of itself (in 5 out of 14 materials used). [
** This was even [//funnyjunk.com/channel/dwarf-fortress/Stellaris/yYkqLlL/ noted] in the ''[[Stellaris (video game)|Stellaris]]'' [[Random Event]] with Dwarf Fortress [[Shout-Out]]:
{{quote|…also turned to fine arts, creating objects intricately decorated with fractal images of themselves and other beautiful yet weird creations.}}
==
* ''[[The Perry Bible Fellowship]]'': [http://www.pbfcomics.com/
* [[Sequential Art (
* [[
** As well as [http://xkcd.com/244/ this] example in roleplaying games.{{context|reason=How is this a Droste Image and not just Recursion?}}
** It later proposes the issues with [http://xkcd.com/878/ a Droste model train set.]
*** And used [http://xkcd.com/555/ here] to abuse a certain [[Urban Legend]].
** [https://xkcd.com/1055/ As an illustration].
* ''[[Exterminatus Now]]'' [http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2006-02-17/comic/non-storyline/out-of-continuity-comics/what-does-the-scouter-say-about-his-power-level/ presents] the plot of ''[[Dragonball Z]]''.
* ''[[Hipster Hitler]]'' wears himself as a shirt.
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* [http://www.zoomquilt.org/ The Zoom Quilt].
* The [[David Hasselhoff|Hasselhoff]] Recursion: [http://hasselhoffinfinity.ytmnd.com/ on YTMND].
** Referenced in another Web Original: ''[[
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* [http://a.imagehost.org/0158/1250826090189.gif This]{{Dead link}}.
* [http://www.infinitecat.com/ The Infinite Cat Project]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et_MmlTxMXA A webcast] goes horribly, horribly [[Funny Moments|wrong.]]
* [http://heeen.de/fun/dawg.gif The yo dawg meme subjected to this.]
* The page image for [[Temporal Paradox]] is an example.
* [[The Other Wiki]]'s [
* A ''[[My Little Pony
* As one commenter explained this image: [http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/190469 "ctrl+ prt sc ctrl+v ctrl+ prt sc ctrl+v ctrl+ prt sc ctrl+v ctrl+ prt sc ctrl+v ctrl+ prt sc ctrl+v ctrl+ prt sc ctrl+v ctrl+ prt sc ctrl+v ctrl+ prt sc ctrl+v ctrl+ prt sc ctrl+v ctrl+ prt sc ctrl+v ctrl+ prt sc ctrl+v ctrl+ prt sc ctrl+v ctrl+ prt sc ctrl+v..."]
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Used in ''[[The Venture
* The ''[[Darkwing Duck (
* In the ''[[Justice League (
* An old [[Hanna
* One episode of ''[[
* A Daffy Duck cartoon set in [[The Wild West]] plays with this, by showing a [[Wanted Poster]] for Nasty Canasta, but when the picture seems to move, we discover it was Canasta himself, standing in front of the poster in the exact same pose.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Stand two mirrors opposite each other. Observe.
* "Video feedback" can be triggered by pointing a video camera at any screen which is displaying the camera's own live footage. ([
** Likewise, any computer video capture utility if it displays its own recording onscreen.
** This technique was used to generate the original opening title sequence for ''[[
** As has been occasionally pointed out in broadcasts, this generally causes progressive feedback similar to audio feedback as the screen and camera operate at slightly different frame rates.
* In mathematics, the concept of [
* The concept of recursive functions in programming is pretty much that. If you don't put a stopping condition, it will repeat itself until it runs out of memory.
** And also, forkbombs. DO NOT TRY THESE UNLESS YOU HAVE SAVED EVERYTHING IMPORTANT AS THEY WILL FREEZE THE COMPUTER UNTILL YOU REBOOT IT.
** On an unrelated note, modern operating systems guard against the aforementioned programming oversight / malicious code. Before infinite recursion can happen, the program will be terminated by "overflowing out of stack", which is basically exhausting the (fairly small) space to note the connections between the recursing function(s). As for forkbombs, it's one of those things that modern UNIX-based OS [[Obvious Rule Patch|actively try to prevent]]. You can't make too many forks at too short an interval, and in some cases there's [[Cap|a maximum number of forks you can do]].
* [
* On a related note, Virtual Machines. You can run a "virtualized" operating system inside that very same operating system, recursively ad infinitum in theory, hardware resources notwithstanding.<ref>And some virtual machines prohibit virtualizing themselves.</ref> This is getting more and more common these days to prevent the headache of having to craft policies for many, many users that share single administrative space. Having an OS emulating the very same OS also cuts down the hassle of having to provide different updates.
▲* Every year, ''[[ESPN]] The Magazine'' has an issue called "Revenge of the Jocks" where a famous athlete takes over as editor for that issue. The front cover features the athlete in question tearing up last year's magazine, which features last year's cover of an athlete tearing up the previous year's magazine, etc. etc.
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