backtracking primitive uses Skin's island as a dictionary

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6004835

Hmmm.

A rather intriguing question, even though it's a common phenomenon on Skins's island.

The Backlash Cometh  (1000+ posts)     Tue Jul-07-09 06:24 AM
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What is the term for...

In the art world, is there a painting which depicts someone looking in a mirror and seeing himself looking in a mirror, and this pattern is repeated until, presumably, infinity?

If so, is there a name for this "over the shoulder" perspective?

Birthmark (1000+ posts)      Tue Jul-07-09 06:33 AM
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1. Infinite regression

Berry Cool  (1000+ posts)        Tue Jul-07-09 07:24 AM
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2. I will never forget the first time I realized that was possible.

I was a kid of about eight or nine sitting in my aunt's kitchen, and nearby was a brown grocery bag from the local supermarket. It had a little cartoon printed on it of a supermarket employee cheerfully carrying a bag of groceries from that market with a big smile on his face. The bag he was carrying, of course, had a little cartoon of him on it, carrying a bag. And then I thought, "And that bag would have a cartoon on it of him carrying a bag...and THAT bag would..."

Freaked me right out.

[The Village Idiot]

I had a camera aimed at a computer screen showing the camera view.... I got that too