{"id":73641,"date":"2017-11-03T13:22:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T20:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/this-captivating-sci-fi-short-film-was-randomly-generated-by-a-computer"},"modified":"2017-11-03T13:22:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T20:22:30","slug":"this-captivating-sci-fi-short-film-was-randomly-generated-by-a-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/this-captivating-sci-fi-short-film-was-randomly-generated-by-a-computer","title":{"rendered":"This Captivating Sci-Fi Short Film Was Randomly Generated By a Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LY7x2Ihqjmc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We wouldn\u2019t blame you for thinking that <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/juliushorsthuis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Julius Horsthuis<\/a> spent weeks designing and animating his sci-fi short, <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/240563157\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Fraktaal<\/em><\/a>, using 3D software. But as the artist reveals, \u201cIt so happens that I\u2019m a lazy animator.\u201d So he instead relied on complex mathematical fractal patterns to automatically generate the alien worlds and cities visited in his film.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/sploid.gizmodo.com\/this-captivating-sci-fi-short-film-was-randomly-generat-1820115896?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=Sploid_facebook\">https:\/\/sploid.gizmodo.com\/this-captivating-sci-fi-short-fil...d_facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wouldn\u2019t blame you for thinking that Julius Horsthuis spent weeks designing and animating his sci-fi short, Fraktaal, using 3D software. But as the artist reveals, \u201cIt so happens that I\u2019m a lazy animator.\u201d So he instead relied on complex mathematical fractal patterns to automatically generate the alien worlds and cities visited in his film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1523,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-computing","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}