{"id":9,"date":"2004-11-13T10:51:06","date_gmt":"2004-11-13T02:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2014-10-26T08:49:01","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T00:49:01","slug":"spiral-fractal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/spiral-fractal-9","title":{"rendered":"Spiral Fractal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/02\/fractal_spiral_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Fractal Spiral\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Hey - I love these things! Here's one called \"Spiral Fractal\". <\/p>\n<p>Is this just a 'nerd' thing or does anyone else find them attractive?<\/p>\n<p>Fractals are built on specific iterations of complex numbers. You can see some mathematical background on the concept here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/complex-numbers\/fractals.php\">Fractals<\/a>, in the Complex Numbers chapter of IntMath.<\/p>\n<p><b>Image credit:<\/b> This and other fractal images are freely available from <a href=\"http:\/\/fractales.free.fr\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/spiral-fractal-9#comments\" id=\"comms\">3 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/spiral-fractal-9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2014\/10\/spiral-fractal2.jpg\" alt=\"Spiral fractal\" width=\"128\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere's a beautiful spiral fractal - made using complex numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}