{"id":544,"date":"2010-10-16T22:15:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T22:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/?p=544"},"modified":"2010-10-16T22:45:41","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T22:45:41","slug":"rip-mandelbrot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/2010\/10\/rip-mandelbrot\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP mandelbrot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>benoit mandelbrot, the man who invented the word &#8216;fractal&#8217; and made maths\u00a0temporarily cool for the public\u00a0died two days ago at age 85. he was able to create some of the most beautiful images that actually meant something mathematically with his own fractal, the mandelbrot set. he was generally a smart and awesome guy.<\/p>\n<p>here&#8217;s a simulation of his set that i made about a year ago:<\/p>\n<p><object style=\"width: 450px; height: 480px;\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"450\" height=\"480\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/new-mandlebrot.swf\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"0\" \/><embed style=\"width: 450px; height: 480px;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/new-mandlebrot.swf\" bgcolor=\"0\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>(click to zoom in (being a fractal it&#8217;s\u00a0infinitely scalable), it&#8217;s quite CPU heavy so be warned with the quality slider)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>benoit mandelbrot, the man who invented the word &#8216;fractal&#8217; and made maths\u00a0temporarily cool for the public\u00a0died two days ago at age 85. he was able to create some of the most beautiful images that actually meant something mathematically with his own fractal, the mandelbrot set. he was generally a smart and awesome guy. here&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zappablamma.com\/zb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}