{"id":979,"date":"2019-02-26T15:49:52","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T23:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/?page_id=979"},"modified":"2019-12-20T13:43:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T21:43:35","slug":"fractal-art","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/fractal-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Fractal Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>In mathematics, a&nbsp;fractal&nbsp;is a subset of a Euclidean space for which the&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hausdorff_dimension\"><strong>Hausdorff dimension<\/strong><\/a><strong>&nbsp;strictly exceeds the&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Topological_dimension\"><strong>topological dimension<\/strong><\/a><strong>. Here however, we attempt to provide a visual introduction to fractals that does not require any mathematics.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a data-external=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fractal\"><strong>Fractals<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0are infinitely self-similar,\u00a0<\/strong><a data-external=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iteration\"><strong>iterated<\/strong><\/a><strong>, and detailed mathematical constructs having fractional dimension, of which many\u00a0<\/strong><a data-external=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_fractals_by_Hausdorff_dimension\"><strong>examples<\/strong><\/a><strong> have been formulated and studied in great depth. Fractals are not limited to geometric patterns, but can also describe processes in time. Fractal patterns with various degrees of self-similarity have been rendered or studied in images, structures, sounds, and found in <\/strong><a data-external=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fractal#fractals_in_nature\"><strong>nature<\/strong><\/a><strong>,\u00a0<\/strong><a data-external=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fractal#fractals_in_technology\"><strong>technology<\/strong><\/a><strong>,\u00a0<\/strong><a data-external=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fractal#In_creative_works\"><strong>art<\/strong><\/a><strong>,\u00a0architecture\u00a0and\u00a0<\/strong><a data-external=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fractal#fractals_in_law\"><strong>law<\/strong><\/a><strong>.\u00a0Fractals are of particular relevance in the field of\u00a0<\/strong><a data-external=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chaos_theory\"><strong>chaos theory<\/strong><\/a><strong>, since the graphs of most chaotic processes are fractals.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The fractals in this gallery were created by Dr. Ronald Joe Record who holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California. Dr. Record&#8217;s research focused on applications of Dynamical Systems Theory, an area of Mathematics popularly known as Chaos Theory.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p>[foogallery id=&#8221;977&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><b>All photography and digital photo manipulation by Ronald Joe Record, Copyright 2019, all rights reserved.<\/b><\/p><p><table class=\"wp-block-table\" style=\"text-align:center\" width=100% border=0 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5><tbody><tr><td style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/mandelbrot-julia-sets\/\"><b>Mandelbrot<\/b><\/a><\/td><td style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/lyapunov-exponents\/\"><b>Lyapunov<\/b><\/a><\/td><td style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/iterated-systems\/\"><b>Iterated<\/b><\/a><\/td><td style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/fractal-art\/\"><b>Fractals<\/b><\/a><\/td><td style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/psychedelic-photo-art\/\"><b>Photos<\/b><\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:42px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n[embed-vi-ad]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In mathematics, a&nbsp;fractal&nbsp;is a subset of a Euclidean space for which the&nbsp;Hausdorff dimension&nbsp;strictly exceeds the&nbsp;topological dimension. Here however, we attempt to provide a visual introduction to fractals that does not&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2935,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/979\/revisions\/2935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}