{"id":3573,"date":"2018-07-23T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/?p=3573"},"modified":"2018-07-18T20:08:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T01:08:23","slug":"antarctic-ships-fractal-and-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/2018\/07\/23\/antarctic-ships-fractal-and-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Antarctic Ships, Fractal and Real"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"content\"><h3>Antarctic Ships, Fractal and Real<\/h3><p>David Wilson, from the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand, has alerted me to this remarkable coincidence.  Here is the \"Burning Ship\" from <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/2018\/06\/25\/greg-searle-fractal-art-and-design\/\">my post about fractals<\/a> four weeks ago.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/files\/fractal.png\" alt=\"\"> <\/p><p>And here is a real photo, entitled <i>The Long, Long Night<\/i>, taken in August 1915 by Frank Hurley, of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shakleton's ship <i>Endurance<\/i>, frozen in the ice in the Weddell Sea.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/files\/endurance.png\" alt=\"\"> <\/p><p>Photo credit: National Library of Australia, <a href=\"http:\/\/nla.gov.au\/nla.obj-158931586\/view\">http:\/\/nla.gov.au\/nla.obj-158931586\/view<\/a>.<\/p><script language=\"JavaScript\"> <!-- \r\n    function grabCode_59db5f5ebe544d829aa7267cb5d5b225() {\r\n        \/\/ Remember the title so we can use it in the new page\r\n        title = document.title;\r\n\r\n        \/\/ Break up these strings so that their presence\r\n        \/\/ in the Javascript doesn't mess up the search for\r\n        \/\/ the MATLAB code.\r\n        t1='59db5f5ebe544d829aa7267cb5d5b225 ' + '##### ' + 'SOURCE BEGIN' + ' #####';\r\n        t2='##### ' + 'SOURCE END' + ' #####' + ' 59db5f5ebe544d829aa7267cb5d5b225';\r\n    \r\n        b=document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];\r\n        i1=b.innerHTML.indexOf(t1)+t1.length;\r\n        i2=b.innerHTML.indexOf(t2);\r\n \r\n        code_string = b.innerHTML.substring(i1, i2);\r\n        code_string = code_string.replace(\/REPLACE_WITH_DASH_DASH\/g,'--');\r\n\r\n        \/\/ Use \/x3C\/g instead of the less-than character to avoid errors \r\n        \/\/ in the XML parser.\r\n        \/\/ Use '\\x26#60;' instead of '<' so that the XML parser\r\n        \/\/ doesn't go ahead and substitute the less-than character. \r\n        code_string = code_string.replace(\/\\x3C\/g, '\\x26#60;');\r\n\r\n        copyright = 'Copyright 2018 The MathWorks, Inc.';\r\n\r\n        w = window.open();\r\n        d = w.document;\r\n        d.write('<pre>\\n');\r\n        d.write(code_string);\r\n\r\n        \/\/ Add copyright line at the bottom if specified.\r\n        if (copyright.length > 0) {\r\n            d.writeln('');\r\n            d.writeln('%%');\r\n            if (copyright.length > 0) {\r\n                d.writeln('% _' + copyright + '_');\r\n            }\r\n        }\r\n\r\n        d.write('<\/pre>\\n');\r\n\r\n        d.title = title + ' (MATLAB code)';\r\n        d.close();\r\n    }   \r\n     --> <\/script><p style=\"text-align: right; font-size: xx-small; font-weight:lighter;   font-style: italic; color: gray\"><br><a href=\"javascript:grabCode_59db5f5ebe544d829aa7267cb5d5b225()\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;        font-style: italic;\">Get \r\n      the MATLAB code <noscript>(requires JavaScript)<\/noscript><\/span><\/a><br><br>\r\n      Published with MATLAB&reg; R2018a<br><\/p><\/div><!--\r\n59db5f5ebe544d829aa7267cb5d5b225 ##### SOURCE BEGIN #####\r\n%% Antarctic Ships, Fractal and Real\r\n% David Wilson, from the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand,\r\n% has alerted me to this remarkable coincidence.  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Here is the \"Burning Ship\" from my post... <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/2018\/07\/23\/antarctic-ships-fractal-and-real\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":3581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,5,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3719,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions\/3719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}