Scientists have studied trees depicted in various works of art and found they follow relatively simple mathematical rules ...

The math Newberry and his student Jingyi Gao used is based on fractals. These are patterns created by repeating the same smaller pattern within itself. Snowflakes are an example of this ...

They are appealing to the eye because of their great amount of symmetry (some fractals). Fractal-like objects were discovered in mathematics more than 100 years ago, but required the computer to bring ...