Scientists take a crack at recreating the hypnotic fractal spirals of the Romanesco cauliflower. Credit...Evan Sung for The New York Times Supported by By Sabrina Imbler Monks once hoped to turn ...

This is most conspicuous on the romanesco cauliflower (sometimes called romanesco broccoli, because of its color), one of the first images that will appear if you search "plant fractals" online. What ...

Fractal geometry is a new branch of mathematics, dating back to the 1970s. From the field’s inception, discoverer/inventor Benoît Mandelbrot recognized the relevance of fractals for capturing ...

Its numerous spirals not only embody Fibonacci numbers. They do so at multiple fractal levels. Romanesco needs something to distinguish it, frankly. It is no great shakes as food, in my view.

Within a fractal, shapes and patterns are repeated in an infinite cascade, such as spirals comprised of smaller spirals that are in turn comprised of still-smaller spirals, and so on.

Within a fractal, shapes and patterns are repeated in an infinite cascade, such as spirals comprised of smaller spirals that are in turn comprised of still-smaller spirals, and so on.

Fractals commonly show up in nature, from spiral-shaped seashells to heads of cauliflower. Now physicists have found these complex, self-repeating patterns in a very unnatural spot: laser light.

Computer scientist Keenan Crane, PhD, is asked to explain fractals to 5 different people; a child, a teen, a college student, a grad student, and an expert. Released on 05/30/2022 ...

And the cauliflowers they simulated and grew were simply not fractal enough. The patterns were visible only at two fractal scales, such as one spiral nested in another spiral.