A physicist who uses fractals to investigate the authenticity of some paintings attributed to Jackson Pollock finds that the works may be fake. But is the flaw in the paintings or in the fractal ...

The idea that, if you zoom in far enough, you’ll eventually encounter a structure that repeats the initial pattern you saw on larger scales, is mathematically realized in the concept of a fractal.

Fractals are everywhere. If you zoom in on the point of a snowflake, you see miniature snowflakes. If you zoom in on the branches of a tree, you see miniature branches.

Fractals are not only around us but they are also inside us: our lungs and blood vessels show fractal characteristics. Fractal mathematics can help us describe and quantify these structures.

Fractals are exquisite structures produced by nature, hiding in plain sight all around us. They are tricky to define precisely, though most are linked by a set of four common fractal features ...

Scientists have studied trees depicted in various works of art and found they contain fractals, following relatively simple ...

Interactive Fractal Tree of Life Zooms In On Earth’s Entire Evolutionary History A new interactive website shows a phylogenetic tree of everything, as zoomable as Google Earth.

In this interactive, zoom deep into a Mandelbrot set, the most famous of fractals, to the mind-bending magnification of 250,000,000x.

At the heart of being a fractal is self-similarity, the idea that each piece appears similar to the whole. Think of how a coastline on a map appears similarly wrinkly across different levels of zoom.

This fractal viewer is a great way to get your feet wet with Field-Programmable Gate Arrays. The project will give you some experience working with video output, user input, and a whole bunch of ma… ...