{"id":173,"date":"2007-12-14T00:28:48","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T05:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/?p=173"},"modified":"2007-12-14T00:28:52","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T05:28:52","slug":"the-fractal-drip-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"The fractal drip wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The gloves are off in this week&#8217;s big fight over the fractal analysis of paintings by Jackson Pollock.<\/p>\n<p>In the blue corner: Lawrence &#8220;Beam me up Scotty&#8221; Krauss from Case Western Reserve University and few pals who a few weeks back <a href=\"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/?p=102\">rubbished the idea that fractal analysis couold spot a genuine Pollock from a fake<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the red corner: Richard &#8220;Drippy&#8221; Taylor at the University of Oregon and his mates who have  come out fighting saying that Krauss&#8217;s analysis was oversimplisitic, misrepresented their earlier research and is just plain wrong in places.<\/p>\n<p>So that settles it then.<\/p>\n<p>Ref:  <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0712.1652\">arxiv.org\/abs\/0712.1652<\/a>: Comment on \u201cDrip Paintings and Fractal Analysis\u201d by K. Jones-Smith, H. Mathur<br \/>\nand L.M. Krauss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gloves are off in this week&#8217;s big fight over the fractal analysis of paintings by Jackson Pollock. In the blue corner: Lawrence &#8220;Beam me up Scotty&#8221; Krauss from Case Western Reserve University and few pals who a few weeks back rubbished the idea that fractal analysis couold spot a genuine Pollock from a fake. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fightin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}