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Ron Eglash, a professor at the School of Information and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design, discusses fractal patterns on African textiles during the filming of \u201cEnslaved.\u201d (Ron Eglash)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

A fractal is a pattern that repeats itself at different scales and is ideal for modeling nature. But modern computer scientists aren\u2019t the only ones to use fractals\u2014Africans have been using them for centuries to design textiles, sculptures, architecture, hairstyles and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U-M professor Ron Eglash<\/strong> is widely known for his work in the field of ethnomathematics\u2014particularly for his study of these African fractal patterns. He recently lent this expertise to the production of\u00a0“Enslaved<\/a>,” a new six-episode docuseries produced by and starring actor Samuel L. Jackson. In it, Eglash demos his fractal simulation tools that were developed at UMSI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was thrilled to be a part of this team,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was a really exciting endeavor and a great way to get the fundamental message out that Africa not only has an amazing art and humanities heritage, but also a mathematical heritage.\u201d The series premiered Sept. 14 on EPIX, with new episodes airing each Monday at 10 p.m. through Oct. 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A fractal is a pattern that repeats itself at different scales and is ideal for modeling nature. But modern computer scientists aren\u2019t the only ones to use fractals\u2014Africans have been using them for centuries to design textiles, sculptures, architecture, hairstyles and more. U-M professor Ron Eglash is widely known for his work in the field of ethnomathematics\u2014particularly for\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[197,260,101],"class_list":["post-20675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-media","tag-si","tag-tv"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/eglash-series.jpg",950,550,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/eglash-series-200x116.jpg",200,116,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/eglash-series-300x174.jpg",300,174,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/eglash-series-768x445.jpg",665,385,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/eglash-series-700x405.jpg",600,347,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/eglash-series.jpg",950,550,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/eglash-series.jpg",950,550,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/eglash-series-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/eglash-series-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/eglash-series-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/eglash-series-665x385.jpg",665,385,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/eglash-series.jpg",400,232,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"A fractal is a pattern that repeats itself at different scales and is ideal for modeling nature. But modern computer scientists aren\u2019t the only ones to use fractals\u2014Africans have been using them for centuries to design textiles, sculptures, architecture, hairstyles and more. U-M professor Ron Eglash is widely known for his work in the field…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20675"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20679,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20675\/revisions\/20679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}