After accidentally discovering the osx command for a full screen capture on a wild Friday night indoors, I spent a little too long becoming more and more engrossed in the ever receding desktop.
UPDATE: Coincidentally found out that this is a particular type of recursion through a @Golan twitter update. This is called the Droste effect – An image exhibiting the Droste effect depicts a smaller version of itself in a place where a similar picture would realistically be expected to appear. This smaller version then depicts an even smaller version of itself in the same place, and so on. Only in theory could this go on forever; practically, it continues only as long as the resolution of the picture allows, which is relatively short, since each iteration exponentially reduces the picture’s size. It is a visual example of a strange loop, a self-referential system of instancing. – Source: Wikipedia
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I’ve done this before accidentally with remote screen sharing between machines. It’s pretty at first, until the computers crash and explode!
Crashing multiple machines with one process! That sounds like a worthwhile experiment. Iheartplay project?