# \[droste effect\]

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/droste-effect/275402>\
**Category:** open source\
**Created:** [November 13, 2008, 2:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/droste-effect/275402 "2008-11-13T14:01:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![pwdVergesser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@pwdVergesser](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pwdVergesser)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 2:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/droste-effect/275402/1 "2008-11-13T14:01:30Z")

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Droste effect? Now he´s a bit of a weirdo… you might say. Nuts to you! When I fetched an old paperback with prints of Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher, I was once again charmed by his pictures that I started to read up on how these art is created (more info´s on ‘how to’ in my [blog](http://www.prinzipiell.com)).

So here´s my first result of building a kind of Droste effect with flash…

[![](http://forum.kirupa.com/uploads/kirupa/5036/325ec66da12ee475.jpg)](http://www.dasprinzip.com/prinzipiell/2008/11/13/droste-effect/)  
[Launch.](http://www.dasprinzip.com/prinzipiell/2008/11/13/droste-effect/)

I´m bound to say that my current approach of this effect isn´t nearly as sophisticated as the MathMap standard, but to manipulate pixels partly performant in realtime with flash still is a challenge separately. 😉

Did I mention that you can download the sources (just dropped the download link within my [blog-post](http://www.dasprinzip.com/prinzipiell/2008/11/13/droste-effect/))

Enjoy  
pwd