{"id":1915,"date":"2012-09-02T18:50:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T17:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2012-09-02T18:50:53","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T17:50:53","slug":"barnsley-fern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/09\/02\/barnsley-fern\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnsley fern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8313\/7915118680_412f285e64_b.jpg\" alt=\"Fern\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Above is my attempt at creating the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barnsley_fern\" title=\"Barnsley fern\" target=\"_blank\">Barnsley fern<\/a> [1]. It is one of the better known examples of a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Self-similarity\" title=\"self-similar set\" target=\"_blank\">self-similar set<\/a>, the other key example is the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sierpinski_gasket\" title=\"Sierpinski gasket\" target=\"_blank\">Sierpinski gasket<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The Barnsley fern resembles real species of <em>Asplenium<\/em> ferns, see below. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/e\/ee\/Sa-fern.jpg\" alt=\"real ferns\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[1]  Michael Barnsley, <em>Fractals Everywhere<\/em>, Boston, MA: Academic Press, 1993<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia entry on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barnsley_fern\" title=\"Barnsley fern\" target=\"_blank\">Barnsley Fern<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above is my attempt at creating the famous Barnsley fern [1]. It is one of the better known examples of a self-similar set, the other key example is the Sierpinski gasket. The Barnsley fern resembles real species of Asplenium ferns, see below. References [1] Michael Barnsley, Fractals Everywhere, Boston, MA: Academic Press, 1993 Links Wikipedia &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/09\/02\/barnsley-fern\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Barnsley fern<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-mathematics","category-mathematical-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}