{"id":567,"date":"2017-08-31T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekhaus.com\/math103_fall2017\/?p=567"},"modified":"2017-08-31T09:20:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T13:20:07","slug":"thurs-aug-31-what-is-a-fractal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekhaus.com\/math103_fall2017\/2017\/08\/31\/thurs-aug-31-what-is-a-fractal\/","title":{"rendered":"Thurs Aug 31 &#8211; What is a fractal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today in class we will talk about the <a href=\"https:\/\/geekhaus.com\/math103_fall2017\/2017\/08\/22\/current-assignment\/\">Dragon Curve<\/a>, what makes it a fractal, and three different ways that it can be constructed. We&#8217;ll also print some extra copies so we can make a huge model out of them later.<\/p>\n<p>Although we&#8217;ll still be talking about the Dragon Curve next week, at the same time you will each choose a different fractal to learn about and 3D print. This is your next assignment, due on Tuesday, and it will require you to write a blog post with mathematical facts and find a 3D-printable model of your fractal. The full instructions and an example blog post are at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/geekhaus.com\/math103_fall2017\/2017\/08\/31\/first-fractal-mandelbrot\/\">First Fractal \u2013 Mandelbrot set<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pro tip:<\/strong> If you want to see only the instructor posts for this course, click on the <a href=\"https:\/\/geekhaus.com\/math103_fall2017\/category\/timeline\/\">Timeline<\/a> option in the right column menu.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also:<\/strong> Remember you can see all current and past assignments by clicking on the <a href=\"https:\/\/geekhaus.com\/math103_fall2017\/assignments\/\">Assignments<\/a> tab in the top menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Today in class we will talk about the Dragon Curve, what makes it a fractal, and three different ways that it can be constructed. We&#8217;ll also print some extra copies so we can make a huge model out of them later. Although we&#8217;ll still be <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/geekhaus.com\/math103_fall2017\/2017\/08\/31\/thurs-aug-31-what-is-a-fractal\/\" title=\"Thurs Aug 31 &#8211; What is a fractal?\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekhaus.com\/math103_fall2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekhaus.com\/math103_fall2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekhaus.com\/math103_fall2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekhaus.com\/math103_fall2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekhaus.com\/math103_fall2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/geekhaus.com\/math103_fall2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"https:\/\/geekhaus.com\/math103_fall2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekhaus.com\/math103_fall2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekhaus.com\/math103_fall2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekhaus.com\/math103_fall2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekhaus.com\/math103_fall2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekhaus.com\/math103_fall2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}