Frax, a new iOS app, leverages the computational oomph in your new iPhone to make dizzying detailed mathematical art. Frax, to its credit, leans right into the “ooh, neat colors!” aspect of fractal ...

The snowflake exhibit, modeled after a fractal structure recently discovered by Jeannine Mosely, is the six-month-long labor of love for curator and USC Libraries Discovery fellow Margaret Wertheim.

The art of folding paper is usually a solitary, meditative endeavor. But when your origami project involves 49,000 business cards and a healthy dose of non-Euclidean geometry, you probably want to ...

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 ...

Wood burning, which goes by pyrography when it’s feeling fancy, has been an art form for centuries. [PapaJ06] puts a new twist on it by using a microwave oven transformer to generate fractal patterns ...

It’s been a while since we last wrote about Julius Horsthuis, a visual effects artist who authored a series of fractal 360 videos for VR which are simply mind-blowing—both now and back in the good ol’ ...

PEORIA, Ariz. - Arizona is known for its beautiful, diverse landscapes and one Peoria man is bringing that beauty into people’s homes. He takes wood from trees that have been cut down and turns it ...

Our Spotlight on the Arts for December 2025 shines brightly on fractal burning artist, Michael Davenport, of MSD Designs! What is fractal burning art? Fractal burning art, also known as Lichtenburg ...

As a mathematical concept, the fractal can be intimidating. Benoit Mandelbrot, the Polish-born mathematician who coined the term, defined a fractal as “a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can ...

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