Sunday, November 08, 2009

Artistic Recursion to the Nth Degree

recursion

Main Entry: re·cur·sion
Pronunciation: \ri-ˈkər-zhən\
Function: noun
Etymology: Late Latin recursion-, recursio, from recurrere
Date: 1616

1 : return
2 : the determination of a succession of elements (as numbers or functions) by operation on one or more preceding elements according to a rule or formula involving a finite number of steps
3 : a computer programming technique involving the use of a procedure, subroutine, function, or algorithm that calls itself one or more times until a specified condition is met at which time the rest of each repetition is processed from the last one called to the first — compare iteration.

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1 Comments:

Anonymous Pansy Palmetto said...

YOU NEED TO GET A JOB! So that you will stop pestering the rest of us with this weird stuff.

I am officially blind. My eyes are still "seeing" things rededing/coming at me even though they aren't moving.

That was weird, interesting, moved too fast and then when it slowed down enough (or I got used to it) there I was back at the start and falling down into the rabbithole all over again.

6:29 PM, November 10, 2009  

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