You can think of a tree as being fractal-like. Here’s a sketch of a tree. Daniel Shiffman / Nature of Code But look closely, and each branch is kind of a “reduced-size copy of the whole”, ...

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.

Calculating fractal branches in tree art. The study was inspired by a visit to the Sidi Saiyyed Mosque in India. Newberry noticed that some of the windows had carvings with stylized trees.

Trees are, in fact, fractal from their seeds to their roots to their leaves to their canopy. If you look closely at the veins of the leaves, you'll notice just how self-similar they are.

Interactive Fractal Tree of Life Zooms In On Earth’s Entire Evolutionary History. A new interactive website shows a phylogenetic tree of everything, as zoomable as Google Earth.

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 ...

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.