Sentences with phrase «of fractal patterns»

What's more, many pieces showed signs of fractal patterns — repeating motifs that reoccur at different scales, whether you zoom in or zoom out of a canvas (British Journal of Psychology, vol 102, p 49).

While the function of fractal patterns remains a mystery, Teich says their universal presence suggests they are important.

«Within the clusters of atoms that make up a metallic glass, atoms are arranged in a particular kind of fractal pattern called percolation,» Chen says.

Not exact matches

I found something of a floral / fractal pattern in light blue that went really well with my fabric.

Nature teaches us lessons of cycles, fractal patterns, colony behavior, etc..

Researchers from North Carolina State University have found that gallium indium (EGaIn), a liquid metal with one of the highest surface tensions, can be induced to spread and form patterns called fractals with the application of low voltage.

Less than one volt of electricity caused the metal to spread out and form different fractals, or patterns.

In June he reported the answer: The animal forages along a complex mathematical pattern called a Lévy flight, a type of fractal.

By tweaking the smallest units of life, scientists are making bigger gains in producing alternative and renewable energy, with recent efforts aimed at molecule - level controls and promoting fractal growth patterns to create different fuels and improve efficiencies.

This rough, fragmented pattern, known as a fractal, creates an effective means of sampling a large space.

At this level, the same fractal pattern is present, regardless of location within the material.

For each prime, as the exponent grows, the formulas recur in ways that are reminiscent of fractals — structures in which patterns or shapes repeat identically at multiple different scales.

When training as an engineer, I was applying fractal mathematics to model patterns of plant diversity.

Because of their repeating patterns, fractal electrodes provide a large surface area that holds more electrical charge than the Euclidean electrodes, said the study's lead author, William J. Watterson, a doctoral student of Taylor's.

They discovered that the maps showed a particular form, known as a fractal pattern (Journal of Archaeological Science, vol 30, p 1619).

Teich previously found fractal patterns in the hearing and visual systems of cats, but never before in an isolated neuron.

Now researchers at Boston University and the University of California at San Diego report that the rate of release of neurotransmitters varies in a fractal pattern: it looks similar, regardless of the timescale over which it is observed.

Georgi suggested that a property known as scale invariance — seen in fractal - like patterns that remain unchanged even when you zoom in and out to different scales, like the branching of redwood trees and the jagged edges of coastlines — could apply to individual particles too.

It also showed that the fossil over millions of years developed a surprising fractal characteristic — a still - unexplained, repeating pattern most commonly recognized in snowflakes but also found in structures as large as spiral galaxies.

Simulations show that fractal patterns emerge on the horizons of black holes at mealtime, which could offer insights into their growth.

Fractals are mathematical sets that show self - similar patterns: zoom in on one part of a fractal drawing, such as the famous Mandelbrot set, and the smaller portion will look nearly the same as the original image.

With their delicately branching form, akin to the recurring geometric patterns of fractals, which look similar at different scales, ferns fascinated the Victorians.

The oral tradition of yoga overflows with these fractal patterns which are outlined in the teachings of the tantric chakra system.

Or defer to its fractal patterning as the deep informer of life processes.

It postulates an 8 - wave pattern as a fractal of market movement.

Instead of a neat statistical bell curve, these formulas are used to describe fractals where the same patterns can sometimes be wildly larger or smaller than the one you are looking at.

The tiny streams of gold create fractal patterns recalling aerial topographical photographs.

Inspired by the natural beauty of his West Coast home, the Cupertino native renders the area's flora and neon haze into radiant, fractal - like patterns.

Architect Sim Van der Ryn wrote of ten patterns that make up our physical world at all scales including lattices, meanders, and the fractal.

And in some ways, the resulting structures, created by fractal patterning, reflect the artist's personal understanding of the intricate workings of the universe and the mind.

Fractals, patterns, gravitational forces and chaos theory are all implicit elements of each painting.

A microbiologist, surfer and self - taught painter, Brookes enjoys meditating on complexities, according to the gallery: the nature of existence and perception, Hindu and Buddhist deities, science and philosophy, as well as fractals and math - based patterns.

The resultant images are gestural, calligraphic forms whose textures and fractal - like patterns are reminiscent of the endlessly repeating structures in nature that exist on multiple scale levels from the sub-atomic to the universal; a reflection of the complex architecture of our universe.»

His 1948 Number 14 has a coastline - like dimension of 1.45, while his later paintings had successively higher fractal dimensions and accordingly more elaborate patterns.

A microbiologist, surfer and self - taught painter, Brookes enjoys meditating on complexities: the nature of existence and perception, Hindu and Buddhist deities, science and philosophy, as well as fractals and math - based patterns.

Whether it's the glorious heart of a sunflower, or the mind - bending swirl of a fractal, one of nature's secrets to its seeming complexity is that it actually repeats things that are fundamentally quite simple, in patterns that make it look deceptively complicated.

Wilson's intricate works draws inspiration from forms and patterns already found in nature, such as diatoms, they fractal forms of snowflakes, and from cymatics, the visual patterns of sound and vibration.

In 2008, Swedish researchers found that people respond more favorably to fractal patterns, a common type of natural pattern that can be found in everything from ocean waves, to leaves, to fires.

For example, students can use Apple Pencil and drawing apps to learn about symmetry, or take photos of nature - based spiral patterns in their environment using the iPad's camera to learn about fractals.