Boxed In: a look at recursion

"To understand recursion, you must understand recursion."

(How I love this.)

I made one of my little generative art animations with the idea of seeing what kind of effect I could get from recursively drawing some simple shape or shapes over and over again with small changes. 

I used just a box and a circle and came up with this:

While coding, this happens when a function being defined is applied within it's own definition, like this:

function makeBox(x,y,s)
  {
    translate(x,y);
    rotate(s/10+(col/2)%360);
    blah, blah, blah
      {
         makeBox(x+s/4, y, s/2);
         makeBox(x-s/4, y, s/2);
         makeBox(x, y+s/4, s/2);
      }
  }

In this case the function makeBox calls itself within it's own definition. This can be very powerful. And so much fun!

I hope you enjoy.