Researchers have unlocked the mystery of why people have seen so many different images in Rorschach inkblots. The image associations are induced by fractal characteristics at the edges of the blots ...

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Researchers in the field of turbulent combustion have found fractal geometry to be a useful tool for describing and quantifying the nature of turbulent flames. This paper describes and compares ...

The artworks in the exhibit “Evolving: Beginning / Becoming” at Collaboration Coffee bring together what the artists refer to as “the ancient and the modern” in the media they use. Dan Brewer’s ...

My friend Wilfried in the Netherlands (a man who has far too much time on his hands) just sent me the link to a rather interesting page on the TechRepublic website (I'm still trying to wrap my brain ...

A photon sieve containing pinholes that follow a fractal pattern produces high quality images. optics.org talks to Walter Furlan to find out more about fractal photon sieves. A fractal photon sieve ...

We’re finding infinitely complex, self-similar shapes all over creation. And we’re just getting started. The world is full of beautiful geometry. It’s something we start teaching our youngest children ...

EUGENE, Ore. -- Feb. 14, 2017 -- Researchers have unlocked the mystery of why people have seen so many different images in Rorschach inkblots. The image associations -- a bat, woman with a ponytail, ...