Collaborating with psychologists and neuroscientists, we measured people's responses to fractals found in nature (using photos of natural scenes), art (Pollock's paintings) ...

Extra: Look on the internet for some images of computer-generated fractals and fractals occurring in nature. Are there some that you find particularly impressive?

Pictures of nature, seascapes, and fractals might induce relaxation. Read on to take a mental vacation with these calming pictures and learn what types of pictures can alleviate stress.

Many people know Benoît Mandelbrot from the computer screensavers of a pre-LCD era. Others have a deeper understanding of his mathematics, the repeating geometries that earned him the sobriquet ...

Fractals: A Sense of Scale. By Peter Tyson; Posted 10.01.08; ... NOVA Online's Rachel VanCott used the program Ultra Fractal 5 to generate these images of the Mandelbrot set. Credits.

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 ...

Fractal geometry is a field of math born in the 1970s and mainly developed by Benoit Mandelbrot. ... These aren’t drawings or pictures, but mathematical shapes.

Why fractals: The researchers also tried training their AI using other abstract images, including ones produced using Perlin noise, which creates speckled patterns, ...

PORT ANGELES — The Second Saturday Art Walk in Port Angeles, set from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., will feature fractals at Studio Bob and nature photography at Harbor Arts. “Fractal World Explorations” by Cory ...

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 ...

Fractals are common in nature because of the surprisingly simple way they are made. Mathematically, they also help us make sense of complexity and chaos – and maybe even quantum weirdness ...