{"id":7777,"date":"2013-01-18T12:49:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T04:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=7777"},"modified":"2013-01-18T18:13:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T10:13:25","slug":"friday-math-movie-fractals-hunting-the-hidden-dimension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-fractals-hunting-the-hidden-dimension-7777","title":{"rendered":"Friday math movie: Fractals - Hunting the Hidden Dimension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a fascinating documentary from PBS Nova (54 minutes). It delves into how fractals were first used to create CGI effects (mountains, and later whole planets).<\/p>\n<p>Mandelbrot's contribution is particularly interesting. This mathematician wasn't very interested in equations. Instead, he dealt with pictures.<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LemPnZn54Kw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-fractals-hunting-the-hidden-dimension-7777\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2013\/01\/fractal.gif\" alt=\"fractal\" width=\"128\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSee this PBS documentary about the development of fractals and how they are used in computer graphics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}