Other examples of nature's fractals include clouds, rivers, coastlines and mountains. Are fractals the secret to some soothing natural scenes? Credit: Ronan, CC BY-NC-ND ...

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

The results of many studies show that exposure to fractal patterns in nature reduce people’s levels of stress up to 60%. It seems this stress reduction effect occurs because of a certain ...

Nature is messy, craggy and chaotic — or so it seemed until 1975, the year a maverick mathematician, Benoît Mandelbrot, invented the term fractals to describe patterns he had discerned within ...

John Briggs, Fractals: The Pattern of Chaos: Discovering a New Aesthetic of Art, Science and Nature (New York: Simon Schuster, 1992). Michael McGuire, An Eye for Fractals: A Graphic and Photographic ...

What I find fascinating about the interrelation between cognitive fluctuations, mind wandering, and fractal patterns in art and nature is that they tend to be good for us in a uniquely playful way.

Fractals are all around us — in a fern’s feathery leaves or our own branching blood vessels. Their geometry has applications in fields including economics, medicine, and physics.

Mysterious Patterns: Finding Fractals in Nature Sarah C. Campbell, photos by Sarah C. and Richard P. Campbell. Boyds Mills, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-62091-627-8 ...

Fractals are a source of endless fascination to me. Life itself relies on many of the concepts of fractals: trees are fractal, as are feathers, coast lines, and many other things in nature.

Nature's fractals benefit from how they grow at multiple scales, said Taylor, who has long turned to fractals as bioinspiration. While trees have the most-recognized form of fractal branching, ...