{"id":7995,"date":"2019-05-22T16:02:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/fractals\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:02:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:53","slug":"fractals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/fractals\/","title":{"rendered":"Fractals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geometrical objects typified by some form of self-similarity. &nbsp;In other words, when magnified to an appropriate scale, parts of a fractal appear similar to the whole. &nbsp;Examples of approximate fractals are coastlines of islands, continents and terrain features. &nbsp;In non-linear dynamical systems that exhibit deterministic chaos, the so-called strange attractors are typically fractals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"attractor\">Attractor<\/a>, <a href=\"brain_damage_studies\">Brain damage studies<\/a>, <a href=\"chaos\">Chaos<\/a>, <a href=\"chaos_theory\">Chaos theory<\/a>, <a href=\"determinism\">Determinism<\/a>, <a href=\"non-linear_dynamical_systems\">Non-linear dynamical systems<\/a>, <a href=\"pattern_formation\">Pattern formation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geometrical objects typified by some form of self-similarity. &nbsp;In other words, when magnified to an appropriate scale, parts of a fractal appear similar to the whole. &nbsp;Examples of approximate fractals are coastlines of islands, continents and terrain features. &nbsp;In non-linear dynamical systems that exhibit deterministic chaos, the so-called strange attractors are typically fractals.&nbsp; See Attractor, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/fractals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fractals&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}