What is Recursion?

To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion — Stephen Hawking

Recursion is a technique used in ordinal inscriptions where one inscription can reference another inscription. GeneratOrd uses a series of HTML and JavaScript inscriptions that utilise recursion to generate a collection on chain.

For this to work, all the traits used in the collection are inscribed as regular images. Then, the collection is inscribed as HTML files. These HTML files run some JavaScript code that loads the trait images, combines them into a single image by layering them on top of each other, and displays this image.

GeneratOrd uses some clever techniques to make these HTML files as small as possible, making it cheaper to inscribe them. Because the HTML files are so small, it is very cheap to inscribe them, making large collections much cheaper