Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century abstract artist and art theorist obsessed with simplicity and essence of form. Even ...

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

Exploring fractal basics Fractals are intricate geometric structures created when patterns (or pieced of patterns) are altered and duplicated at ever-diminishing scales. Even simple shapes can quic… ...

A New App Turns Fractals Into Ornate Art With Frax, users can create mathematically-driven art, adding color, depth and texture to geometric shapes ...

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 ...

New research has revealed a quantity related to the complexity and proportions of a tree's branches that artists have preserved and played with to affect if and how viewers perceive a tree.

Benoit Mandelbrot, father of fractal geometry, dies at 85 Subscribers are entitled to 10 gift sharing articles each month. These can be shared with friends and family who are not subscribers.

Despite their unboundedness, treatments of maths and the arts can be fairly predictable: geometry, perspective, Islamic tilings and tessellations, Escher, fractals, wallpaper and frieze patterns ...

A spectacular new art exhibit that combines light, sound and mathematics to create a kaleidoscope-like experience promises to take visitors into another dimension.

The math concept hidden in this tree art — geometric shapes known as fractals — is apparent in branching patterns in nature and may be key to humans’ ability to recognize such artwork as ...