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?

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.

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

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.

Computer scientist Keenan Crane, PhD, is asked to explain fractals to 5 different people; a child, a teen, a ... and art can come together to make beautiful images. I hope it's inspired you to ...

"These fractals are inducing these images that aren't there. They're kind of fooling the visual system," said lead study author Richard Taylor, a physicist at the University of Oregon.

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 ...