Studying fractal patterns in ecotones – the boundaries between different types of vegetation – could show us how plants are ...

Like the branches, twigs and leaves of a tree, fractals repeat the same patterns across different scales. Snowflakes, ...

Fractals are sometimes referred to as a “visual representation of math.” They can be observed in the spatial arrangements found in many familiar forms, patterns, and shapes in nature: from ...

The math that describes the branching pattern of trees in nature also holds for trees depicted in art—and may even underlie our ability to recognize artworks as depictions of trees. Trees are ...

Most are defined by repeated patterns. The spiral is the most striking ... The royal ferns, the tree fern, the polystichums — they are all at it. Each frond within the burgeoning crown starts ...

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