Trees depicted in famous artworks across a range of styles follow the same mathematical rules as their real-life counterparts ...

Unlike traditional geometric shapes, fractals can have infinite detail, appearing the same at any scale. This means that ...

Because of the speed, he was able to accomplish real-time zooming. You can see a video of the results, below. The FPGA board is a ZestSC1 that has a relatively old Xilinx Spartan 3 chip onboard.

The image of the Mandelbrot set is one of the most recognizable representations of a fractal. But what's behind the entrancing picture? In this interactive, learn a bit about how we generated our ...

You may not be able to define “fractal” — yet — but fractals are, in fact, everywhere. As you might expect from hearing her title, Hayley Brazier, Donald M. Kerr curator of natural history ...

Snowflakes, lightning bolts and human blood vessels are also fractal structures, which all show a degree of self-similarity: As you zoom into the details of a fractal, you can see a replica of the ...