Fractal Patterns in Nature and Art Are Aesthetically Pleasing and Stress-Reducing ... fooling observers into seeing images that aren’t there.

From fractals to music. The secret behind fractal music involves something that mathematicians call mapping. Mapping means creating a direct relationship between the numerical output of an equation ...

Earth’s most beautiful fractal patterns have to be seen to be believed Computer science professor Paul Bourke has an exhaustive amount of information about fractals on his website, but for my ...

Fractal images and sounds invite our eyes, bodies, and brains to play, wander, and make new associations at a mainly unconscious and involuntary level. We enjoy it even if when we do not ...

Obtain images of fractals to display for the class. Some images can be found at Fractal Art Main Gallery; Web site. Students will be viewing a video clip of Benoît Mandelbrot.

He measured people’s skin conductance (a measure of nervous system activity) and found that they recovered from stress 60 percent better when viewing computer images with a mathematical fractal ...

From bats to jack-o-lanterns, Rorschach’s inkblots brought out a vast array of image associations during their use, with up to 300 different images recorded for each of the 10 blots. Now ...

By using fractal math to calculate how the branches of trees are depicted in art, researchers can put a number on what makes for a realistic tree. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip Featured ...

The most famous fractal equation is the 2D Mandelbrot set, named after the mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot of Yale University, who coined the name “fractals” for the resulting shapes in 1975 ...