{"id":15189,"date":"2025-07-12T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=15189"},"modified":"2025-07-03T02:39:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T02:39:19","slug":"maths-trumpet-reddit-mystery-solved-july-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/maths-trumpet-reddit-mystery-solved-july-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"3D Printing a Mathematical Mystery from Reddit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"This trumpet represents -2^x\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0WqpLYrWu7g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">A mysterious image of a \u201cmaths trumpet\u201d surfaced on Reddit six years ago before its creator vanished, leaving the internet stumped. The object is a 3D visualization of the complex values of the equation (-2)^x. Now, the mathematical puzzle is finally solved, revealing the beautiful, multi-layered structure hidden within the complex roots of this seemingly simple formula.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A six-year-old internet mystery is solved, revealing how the bizarre and beautiful &#8220;maths trumpet&#8221; is a 3D visualization of the multiple complex solutions to the equation (-2)^x.\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.daviddarling.info\/images4\/Gabriels_Horn.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[14097,14111,14104,402,14100,5920,14099,5926,14101,14108,14110,14103,14107,14106,14098,14105,14102,14109,911,189],"class_list":{"0":"post-15189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-math-and-the-sciences","8":"category-engineering","9":"tag-2x","10":"tag-3d-graph","11":"tag-3d-printed-math","12":"tag-3d-printing","13":"tag-3d-visualization","14":"tag-complex-analysis","15":"tag-complex-exponents","16":"tag-complex-numbers","17":"tag-complex-plane","18":"tag-complex-values","19":"tag-exponential-function","20":"tag-fractional-powers","21":"tag-geogebra","22":"tag-math-visualization","23":"tag-maths-trumpet","24":"tag-reddit-math-mystery","25":"tag-roots-of-unity","26":"tag-solving-math-mystery","27":"tag-stand-up-maths","28":"tag-youtube","29":"post_format-post-format-video","30":"cs-entry","31":"cs-video-wrap"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15191,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15189\/revisions\/15191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}