{"id":6158,"date":"2011-03-22T23:56:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T04:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=6158"},"modified":"2011-03-23T00:21:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T05:21:13","slug":"yin-and-yang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=6158","title":{"rendered":"Yin and yang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about the terrible recent events in Japan, I found myself wanting to add something beautiful and positive into the world, so I found myself creating a fractal version of the <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taijitu target=1><i>Taijitu<\/i><\/a>, the ancient symbol of <i>Yin<\/i> and <i>Yang<\/i> (or, in Japanese, <i>In<\/i> and <i>Yo<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>Variations on this symbol, which is most broadly defined as &#8220;a symmetrical pattern inside a circle&#8221;, show up in everything from forms in nature to the flag of South Korea:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/yinyangtree.jpg\" width=220><\/td>\n<td>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/southkoreanflag.jpg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>One thing that appealed to me about creating a fractal version is that it creates a kind of wave-like effect.  A wave, the symmetrical interplay between substance and void, seems like a perfect symbol of <i>Yin<\/i> and <i>Yang<\/i>.   And of course very bad things can happen when a wave gets out of balance.  So perhaps to help restore some positive balance into the world, here is my first attempt at a fractal <i>Taijitu<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/taijitu.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about the terrible recent events in Japan, I found myself wanting to add something beautiful and positive into the world, so I found myself creating a fractal version of the Taijitu, the ancient symbol of Yin and Yang (or, in Japanese, In and Yo). Variations on this symbol, which is most broadly defined as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=6158\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yin and yang&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6158"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6167,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158\/revisions\/6167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}