{"id":4592,"date":"2013-03-02T14:30:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T19:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=4592"},"modified":"2013-03-02T14:41:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T19:41:06","slug":"danger-high-voltage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=4592","title":{"rendered":"Danger: High Voltage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2013\/03\/high-voltage-erosion-15000-volts-travels-through-wood\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i3.photobucket.com\/albums\/y95\/armyyouhave\/fractal-wood_zps99afba97.jpg?w=545\" alt=\"Fractal Fun with Plywood\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>A Shocking Fractal<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I have previously written about both <a href=\"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=738\" target=\"_blank\">fractal fields of lighting<\/a> and about <a href=\"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=4154\">shocking flowers<\/a>, but here is an experiment that merges the two topics.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pratt.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pratt Institute<\/a> student, Melanie Hoff, attached cables carrying 15,000 volts to what looks like plywood planks.  One would expect the wood to immediately catch fire or <a href=\"http:\/\/fc05.deviantart.net\/fs10\/i\/2006\/126\/5\/d\/Burning_Ants_by_Judge_Fred.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">burn a circle<\/a>. Instead, the contact area snakes outward in <a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-TQcj2Q3oC60\/ThcxfSbqI-I\/AAAAAAAAB3o\/p8cxhROVXxM\/s1600\/Vessels1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">tendril forms<\/a> like those seen in <a href=\"http:\/\/markjstock.org\/dla3d\/images\/save0099.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">DLA<\/a> (Diffusion Limited Aggregation) patterns. <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I found the fractally wood-lightning demonstration on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2013\/03\/high-voltage-erosion-15000-volts-travels-through-wood\/\" target=\"_blank\">Colossal<\/a>, a site that says it&#8217;s dedicated to &quot;art and visual ingenuity.&quot; I just thought OT&#8217;s readers would find this <a href=\"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/scicurious\/files\/2012\/09\/strapless-dress1.png\" target=\"_blank\">particular scientific foray<\/a> to be cool. <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The video below allows you to watch the process dramatically unfold in <a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.buzznet.com\/assets\/users16\/katlafata\/default\/slow-motion-photography--large-msg-13528578678.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">slow motion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/60814695?portrait=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Shocking Fractal &nbsp; I have previously written about both fractal fields of lighting and about shocking flowers, but here is an experiment that merges the two topics. A Pratt Institute student, Melanie Hoff, attached cables carrying 15,000 volts to what looks like plywood planks. One would expect the wood to immediately catch fire or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=4592\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/fractal-wood.jpg?fit=450%2C253","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":738,"url":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=738","url_meta":{"origin":4592,"position":0},"title":"Fractal Fields of Lightning","author":"cruelanimal","date":"1 February, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Lightning Fields 128 by Hiroshi Sugimoto I learned to capture the lightning shock... --Roger McGuinn, \"Lover of the Bayou\" The fractal properties of lightning have long been evident in dramatic photographs of self-similar jagged bolts caught in a split-second of illumination.\u00a0 But few have pursued lightning so deeply \"to its\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 1 comment","block_context":{"text":"With 1 comment","link":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=738#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/LightningFields128_Sugimoto.jpg?fit=322%2C400&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":409,"url":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=409","url_meta":{"origin":4592,"position":1},"title":"Fractal Art Without a Computer?","author":"Tim","date":"11 September, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Could this work be described as ...Fractal?Admiral Otto Von Howitzerhead by Kris Kuksi 2009Samuel Monnier, writing at Algorithmic Worlds, his new website - gallery - and blog, said some very interesting things about the fractal nature of sculptures done by Kris Kuksi.\u00a0 Sam said that Kris Kuksi's scuptures \"are very\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5075,"url":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=5075","url_meta":{"origin":4592,"position":2},"title":"The Synthetic Aesthetic &#8211; Part 1","author":"Tim","date":"22 August, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"This is another one of those theoretical postings; you might want to skip it and go look at some fresh fractal art instead.\u00a0 But if you're still interested, in this posting I intend to examine what fractal art has come to be and show that this evolution of the art\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/jhl16.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":328,"url":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=328","url_meta":{"origin":4592,"position":3},"title":"Ultra Fractal 5 &#8212; For Engineers Only!","author":"Tim","date":"8 July, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I think the developers of Ultra Fractal 5 have fallen into the trap that has plagued fractal programs from the earliest days: overly complicated, user-dependent configuration.I have always gotten the feeling, the several times I've tried out Ultra Fractal, that it was designed for people who weren't like me. 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