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

The math concept hidden in this tree art — geometric shapes known as fractals — is apparent in branching patterns in nature and may be key to humans’ ability to recognize such artwork as ...

Most of what they do is complex and difficult to understand, but fractal art might give us a glimpse. Mathematicians study fractals, which are naturally occurring figures used in many branches of ...

The end result is nothing short of art. The fractals are complex, colorful patterns that conjure any number of things—sea weed, snowflakes, sand dunes and oil spills. While most will just doodle ...

This gets hard to draw in MS paint so I’ve used a couple of pictures from this website for the next few stages: After this has iterated an infinite amount of times the fractal shape is defined.

But by looking at fractals in art and trees, the researchers hoped to start a discussion. “This theory of proportion outlines an ideal, and provides common terms in which to compare art ...

That logic, says physicist and art historian Richard Taylor, lies not in art but in mathematics—specifically, in chaos theory and its offspring, fractal geometry. Fractals may seem haphazard at first ...