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

Even if you don’t understand the mathematics behind it, you’ve likely seen the complicated fractal images generated by zooming in on the border of the Mandelbrot set.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As long as I've been into computers, I've always been fascinated by fractals. I've recently had my interest sparked back up by some of the amazing fractal images at www.cognitivedistortion.com and ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered that trees in famous artwork follow the same mathematical fractal patterns as real trees. Researchers analyzed tree art across cultures, finding consistent branch ...