--- title: M.C. Escher Print Gallery Shader | daily.dev description: A technical breakdown of how to recreate M.C. Escher's infinite spiral 'Print Gallery' effect using WebGL shaders. The approach converts image coordinates from... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/m-c-escher-print-gallery-shader-8xhmulvgt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: M.C. Escher Print Gallery Shader | daily.dev og:description: A technical breakdown of how to recreate M.C. Escher's infinite spiral 'Print Gallery' effect using WebGL shaders. The approach converts image coordinates from... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/m-c-escher-print-gallery-shader-8xhmulvgt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/8xhMuLvGT.png og:image:alt: M.C. Escher Print Gallery Shader og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # M.C. Escher Print Gallery Shader **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A technical breakdown of how to recreate M.C. Escher's infinite spiral 'Print Gallery' effect using WebGL shaders. The approach converts image coordinates from Cartesian to polar space, applies a rotation in polar space to break the row structure of recursive droste images, then transforms back to Cartesian coordinates — producing a seamless spiraling illusion. Full vertex and fragment shader source code is provided, with the mathematical intuition explained by analogy to the Fourier transform. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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