This work is recursive. Each additional recursive step you take adds another duck. In theory, you can keep folding forever and get infinite ducks.

Recursive origami is a type of supertask, one that would require an infinite amount of steps to actually complete. I thought recursion would be perfect for the phrase “getting your ducks in a row”. The phrase means “getting organized”, but I find that actually getting my ducks in a row is a supertask. It will never end, no matter how much work I do, because there’s always something else. Thus, “getting your ducks in a row” is never truly finished. You can work on the task as long as you want, but you never finish. Instead, you just give up, much like this origami.

a different angle

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