While working on a second college degree in the 1980s, Don Bristow came across a book called “The Fractal Geometry of Nature.” The book’s purpose was to show that fractals — geometric shapes with ...

My friend Wilfried in the Netherlands (a man who has far too much time on his hands) just sent me the link to a rather interesting page on the TechRepublic website (I'm still trying to wrap my brain ...

IBM has created a site that will turn any Tumblr into a series of fractal images. Why? 38 years ago, one of its mathematicians, Benoit Mandelbrot, discovered that nature’s repetitive, complex patterns ...

A new version of the software adds texture presets and other options for those who need to make very large versions of their images. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

A fractal, according to Franco-Polish mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot, is ‘a way of seeing infinity’. Simply put, it is a pattern that appears to self-replicate indefinitely, constantly reproducing an ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Most musicians have seen fractal images-those hauntingly beautiful pictures generated through ...

From bats to jack-o-lanterns, Rorschach’s inkblots brought out a vast array of image associations during their use, with up to 300 different images recorded for each of the 10 blots. Now, researchers ...