As beautiful as your art and animation might be, sometimes you just want a complex splash of color that folds in on itself in an infinite, scintillating spiral. Other times you might just want a cool ...

Screensaver programs that link idle desktops to distributed computing networks are nothing new, but Scott Draves' Electric Sheep is the first to use its clients as a render farm. Draves' "sheep" are ...

This is how I imagine a trip into the brain of Hunter S. Thompson after eating a slice of Benoît Mandelbrot’s brain, sautéed with a bit of pepper, olive oil, and mescal shaves. Except there are no ...

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 ...