Wood burning, which goes by pyrography when it’s feeling fancy, has been an art form for centuries. [PapaJ06] puts a new twist on it by using a microwave oven transformer to generate fractal patterns ...

Frax, a new iOS app, leverages the computational oomph in your new iPhone to make dizzying detailed mathematical art. Frax, to its credit, leans right into the “ooh, neat colors!” aspect of fractal ...

The snowflake exhibit, modeled after a fractal structure recently discovered by Jeannine Mosely, is the six-month-long labor of love for curator and USC Libraries Discovery fellow Margaret Wertheim.

The art of folding paper is usually a solitary, meditative endeavor. But when your origami project involves 49,000 business cards and a healthy dose of non-Euclidean geometry, you probably want to ...

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 ...

Maria Droujkova and Yelena McManaman are back with one more math game to try out with your kids. They are the two local moms behind the new book "Moebius Noodles: Adventurous Math for the Playground ...

It’s been a while since we last wrote about Julius Horsthuis, a visual effects artist who authored a series of fractal 360 videos for VR which are simply mind-blowing—both now and back in the good ol’ ...

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Richard Taylor receives funding from The Australian Research Council, The Research Council for Science Advancement, and The WM Keck Foundation. Humans are visual creatures. Objects we call “beautiful” ...

As a mathematical concept, the fractal can be intimidating. Benoit Mandelbrot, the Polish-born mathematician who coined the term, defined a fractal as “a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can ...