{"id":10516,"date":"2010-10-21T10:20:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T14:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=10516"},"modified":"2010-10-21T10:20:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T14:20:30","slug":"god-the-geometer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=10516","title":{"rendered":"God the Geometer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:God_the_Geometer.jpg'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/4\/4d\/God_the_Geometer.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nThis illustration, from 13th C France (called \"God The Geometer\"), appeared briefly during an episode of Nova that we were watching a few days ago. It was about how cathedrals were built - arches, buttresses, vaulted ceilings, etc..<\/p>\n<p>That <i>thing<\/i> Jesus is measuring, doesn't it look like a free-hand rendering of a second-hand description of a mini-Mandelbrot or Julia set?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crispyneurons.com\/wiki\/Image:Fractal_03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crispyneurons.com\/images\/c\/ce\/Fractal_03.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>\nmain()\n{\n   float C,l,c,o,O,I=-20;char _;for(;I++<20;puts(\"\"))\n   for(O=-46;O<14;putchar(_?42:32),O++)for(C=l=_=0;o\n   =l*l,c=C*C,l=2*C*l+I\/20,C=c-o+O\/20,o+c<4&&++_;);\n}\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This illustration, from 13th C France (called \"God The Geometer\"), appeared briefly during an episode of Nova that we were watching a few days ago. It was about how cathedrals were built - arches, buttresses, vaulted ceilings, etc.. That thing Jesus is measuring, doesn't it look like a free-hand rendering of a second-hand description of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}