As I've mentioned before, I'm a big fan of recursion. So when my comedy partner Gemma Arrowsmith showed me a website called Wordia we cooked up a plan to create a recursive video definition of the word recursion. The results are below (opens in a new page, you'll understand why I didn't want to embed it when you watch the video):
Any other words you'd like us to do a video definition of? Let me know in the comments.
You might also like this post about recursive images.
I love recursion. There's something about the way it invokes infinity that makes my head spin. Droste effect images are recursive images that got their name from a Dutch company that makes chocolates and cocoa and things like that. Continue reading →
I know what you're thinking: what's the difference between a Venn diagram and an Euler diagram? Good question. The following diagram should clear things up:
Just to clarify, Venn diagrams have regions for all possible combinations of groups whether there are things in those regions or not. Continue reading →
