{"id":496,"date":"2009-06-09T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radhikand.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/09\/ted-tuesday-african-fractal-designs"},"modified":"2009-06-09T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T00:30:00","slug":"ted-tuesday-african-fractal-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiance-holistic.com.au\/site\/ted-tuesday-african-fractal-designs\/","title":{"rendered":"TED Tuesday: African fractal designs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">&#8216;I am a mathematician, and I would like to stand on your roof.&#8217; That is how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/ron_eglash.html\">Ron Eglash<\/a> greeted many African families he met while researching the fractal patterns he\u2019d noticed in villages across the continent.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Ron Eglash is an ethno-mathematician: he studies the way math and cultures intersect. He has shown that many aspects of African design &#8212; in architecture, art, even hair braiding &#8212; are based on perfect fractal patterns.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\" align=\"justify\">[youtube=https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7n36qV4Lk94]<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6648613723511976828-5004084381428106803?l=w-e-t-m.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;I am a mathematician, and I would like to stand on your roof.&#8217; That is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,28,33,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-history","category-mathematics","category-ted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiance-holistic.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiance-holistic.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiance-holistic.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiance-holistic.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiance-holistic.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radiance-holistic.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiance-holistic.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiance-holistic.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiance-holistic.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}