{"id":9,"date":"2008-01-17T23:17:11","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T23:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2020-11-04T00:52:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T00:52:31","slug":"i-love-fractals-and-i-love-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/i-love-fractals-and-i-love-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"I Love Fractals&#8230; and I Love Technology!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/fractal.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Some\u00a0days\u00a0ago,\u00a0I found this <\/span><a title=\"by Ron Eglash\" style=\"font-size: inherit;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/view\/id\/198\">little video about Fractals<\/a><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\"> on my <\/span><a style=\"font-size: inherit;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipodnano\/\">iPod Nano<\/a><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">. I truly recommend you to take a look at the video.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s&nbsp;a&nbsp;presentation&nbsp;by&nbsp;the&nbsp;mathematician&nbsp;Ron Eglash&nbsp;who exposes in 16 minutes his whole investigation about African fractals, in buildings and braids. The whole subject is fascinating even if you don&#8217;t like maths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0main\u00a0reason\u00a0why\u00a0I&#8217;m\u00a0publishing\u00a0this\u00a0here,\u00a0doesn&#8217;t\u00a0have\u00a0to\u00a0do\u00a0with\u00a0fractals.<br>It\u00a0has\u00a0to\u00a0do\u00a0with\u00a0modern lifestyle. I was watching the video then I stopped and thought: &#8220;Here I am, on my daily way to work, watching in a small (and beautiful) device the resume of an interesting life of investigation.&#8221; High quality devices, high quality contents&#8230;\u00a0all on the palm of my hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube alignwide wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ron Eglash: The fractals at the heart of African designs\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7n36qV4Lk94?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>More about this subject: a <a title=\"Fractals!!\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_fractals_by_Hausdorff_dimension\">list of fractals in Wikipedia<\/a>, including my favourite one:&nbsp;<a title=\"Nice Fractal example\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pythagoras_tree\">Pythagoras Triangle<\/a>. This&nbsp;is very&nbsp;handful&nbsp;in boring&nbsp;meetings :) All you need&nbsp;is&nbsp;a pen and&nbsp;a piece of paper. The&nbsp;limit is your&nbsp;patience!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some\u00a0days\u00a0ago,\u00a0I found this little video about Fractals on my iPod Nano. I truly recommend you to take a look at the video. It&#8217;s&nbsp;a&nbsp;presentation&nbsp;by&nbsp;the&nbsp;mathematician&nbsp;Ron Eglash&nbsp;who exposes in 16 minutes his whole investigation about African fractals, in buildings and braids. The whole subject is fascinating even if you don&#8217;t like maths. The\u00a0main\u00a0reason\u00a0why\u00a0I&#8217;m\u00a0publishing\u00a0this\u00a0here,\u00a0doesn&#8217;t\u00a0have\u00a0to\u00a0do\u00a0with\u00a0fractals.It\u00a0has\u00a0to\u00a0do\u00a0with\u00a0modern lifestyle. I was watching the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1836,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/1836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunoprospero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}