The High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon, invites visitors to explore and experience "Patterns at Play: Fractals in Nature," an original exhibition opening Saturday, February 22, 2025.

Scientists have studied trees depicted in various works of art and found they contain fractals, following relatively simple mathematical rules also found in branching patterns in nature.

A mathematician has developed a new way to uncover simple patterns that might underlie apparently complex systems, such as clouds, cracks in materials or the movement of the stockmarket. The ...

The fractal dimension D for the two independent fractures obtained from the experiment shown in Fig. 3 a–h was 1.71 (Fig. 3 k). Figure 3: Propagation of a lipid bilayer rupture in fractal patterns.

Fractal patterns show up both in mathematics and nature, from the intricate contours of the Mandelbrot set to the mesmerizing florets of the broccoli-like vegetable romanesco .