The artworks in the exhibit “Evolving: Beginning / Becoming” at Collaboration Coffee bring together what the artists refer to as “the ancient and the modern” in the media they use. Dan Brewer’s ...

Researchers have unlocked the mystery of why people have seen so many different images in Rorschach inkblots. The image associations are induced by fractal characteristics at the edges of the blots ...

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 ...

Artists Doug Rutledge, Jack Kreutzer and Doug Erion — or Team Equinox — are working with three age groups in three workshops this week to learn about creating shapes and the use of fractal imagery in ...

You may not know what fractals are, mathematically speaking, but you know what they look like: tangled, crenelated forms bending and burbling in on themselves into infinity in a geometric, yet weirdly ...

It's easy to see familiar shapes in seemingly random patterns. Witness how many people see faces in clouds, for example — or in the 'poured' paintings of American artist Jackson Pollock, which he ...

You may not know it, but fractals, like the air you breathe, are all around you. Their irregular, repeating shapes are found in cloud formations and tree limbs, in stalks of broccoli and craggy ...

EUGENE, Ore. -- Feb. 14, 2017 -- Researchers have unlocked the mystery of why people have seen so many different images in Rorschach inkblots. The image associations -- a bat, woman with a ponytail, ...