Artists intuit the appeal of fractals. It's therefore not surprising to learn that, as visual experts, artists have been embedding fractal patterns in their works through the centuries and across ...

The Science Behind Nature’s Patterns. A new book explores the physical and chemical reasons behind incredible visual structures in the living and non-living world ...

A leopard is chasing a zebra, bound to follow the laws of nature and natural selection, ... Professor discusses symmetry, patterns in nature. December 10, 2015; Francis Pellicciaro; ...

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.

The reason patterns often appear in nature is simple: The same basic physical or chemical processes occur in many patterned substances and organisms as they form. Whether in plants and animals or ...

His beautiful coffee table book, Patterns in Nature: Why The Natural World Looks The Way It Does (University of Chicago Press, 2017), takes a fascinating and in-depth look into why and how natural ...

Glass patterns have long served as a paradigmatic tool for unravelling the mechanisms underlying visual form perception and the integration of motion cues. These intricate stimuli, composed of ...

Mathematical patterns reveal profound truths about the universe and, surprisingly, about our inner lives as well. These five visual math concepts offer unique frameworks for understanding our ...

Philip Ball's Patterns in Nature is a jaw-dropping exploration of why the world looks the way it does, with 250 color photographs of the most dramatic examples of the “sheer splendor” of ...