{"id":1570,"date":"2008-12-05T13:21:52","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T19:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp2\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2008-12-05T13:21:52","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T19:21:52","slug":"towering-sponge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/towering-sponge\/","title":{"rendered":"Towering sponge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s the most bizarre video<\/a> I’ve seen recently. (Patience is required; it takes forever to load.)<\/p>\n

There are more sponges<\/a> and other three-dimensional fractals here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Addendum: For sheer trippiness, nothing beats the Mandelbrot set. Here’s the classic fractal video, “Nothing but Zooms,” presented in four parts. Unfortunately, the image quality is low, even for YouTube.<\/p>\n

Part one<\/a>
\nPart two<\/a>
\nPart three<\/a>
\nPart four<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are some more videos of varying degrees of gimmickiness featuring the ultimate paisley.<\/p>\n

This one<\/a>
\nThat one<\/a>
\nThis other one<\/a><\/p>\n

What’s the Mandelbrot set? Let Jonathan Coulton explain<\/a>. (N.B.: naughty words.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s the most bizarre video I’ve seen recently. (Patience is required; it takes forever to load.) There are more sponges and other three-dimensional fractals here, here and here. Addendum: For sheer trippiness, nothing beats the Mandelbrot set. Here’s the classic fractal video, “Nothing but Zooms,” presented in four parts. Unfortunately, the image quality is low, … Continue reading “Towering sponge”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[214,294,350,363,681],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever","tag-fractals","tag-jonathan-coulton","tag-mandelbrot-set","tag-menger-sponge","tag-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-pk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}