You might think that’s an alien spore, or a crystal of some kind. But it’s actually what appears to be a rendering of a three-dimensional fractal! However, fractals are generally calculated in two ...

Fractals have become a common sight, thanks to computer imagery In 1975, a new word came into use, when a maverick mathematician made an important discovery. So what are fractals? And why are they ...

This intricate object is a Mandelbulb. No, not a piece of hyperbolic crochet but possibly the most accurate three-dimensional representation yet of the famous fractal Mandelbrot set. From fern leaves ...

An origami fractal made out of nearly 50,000 business cards is the first physical representation of the Mosely Snowflake three-dimensional fractal in the world. The sculpture was put together by more ...

Benoit Mandelbrot discovered fractals 40 years ago. Born in Poland, he was raised in France and has done most of his work in the U.S. at such institutions as Yale University and IBM 's research ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes famously once wrote, "A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." My mind, and assuredly those of countless others, never did after ...

What you’re watching isn’t organic, but a computer-generated visualization of complex mathematics. It’s a three-dimensional fractal. The clip is a new music video for the song “Eternal Recurrence” by ...

The mathematician Stephen Wolfram made a bold pronouncement last summer: The universe, in all of its infinite complexity, is the result of less than a handful of computational rules. That is, you ...

The world is not smooth, made of perfect spheres and unbroken lines. Its edges are tattered and torn, ragged yet recognizable. Last week the world lost the man whose mathematics helped to explain ...

In 1975, a new word came into use, when a maverick mathematician made an important discovery. So what are fractals? And why are they important? During the 1980s, people became familiar with fractals ...