Associate Professor of Mathematics Shepley “Chip” Ross has a 20-year-old coloring project stashed near the door to his second-floor Hathorn Hall office. He says he won’t toss it. “This was a labor of ...

Some see pyramids, hearts or Hubble space scenes in the images. Reginald Atkins doesn’t title most of his fractal artworks. He leaves it up to others to decide what they see. The colorful works of ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Nature is alive with a special type of pattern called fractals. From the smallest ice crystal to the vastness of the galaxy, fractals are the building blocks of the natural world.

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 ...

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 at the High ...