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 ...

Natalia Sokko / Getty Images. No two snowflake designs are alike, but many represent fractals in that the branches of a snowflake spawn their own side branches, and so on. The snowflake could ...

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 ...

You may not be able to define “fractal” — yet — but fractals are, in fact, everywhere. As you might expect from hearing her title, Hayley Brazier, Donald M. Kerr curator of natural history ...