Better known by his pen name, Fibonacci, he came up with a number sequence that keeps popping up throughout the plant kingdom, and the art world too ... stem in a spiral pattern, which kept ...

The 40 or so pieces by nine artists now at Albany’s Pine Hills Library form the full-fledged “Repeat Play: The Art of Pattern,” an Opalka Gallery-curated show which is open to all ...

Researchers are untangling just what makes particular works of art or natural scenes visually appealing and stress-relieving – and one crucial factor is the presence of the repetitive patterns ...

Trees in nature follow a “self-similar” branching pattern called ... and the approximate number of branches of different diameters. “We analyse trees in artwork as self-similar, fractal ...

From the photos we share on social media to the systems that run our transport networks, humans now generate an astonishing 2.5 quintillion (25 followed by 17 zeros) bytes of data every day.

But in 1952, he also proposed an explanation for how naturally occurring patterns – things like the spots and stripes on animal fur – could arise from a random slate of cells. At the time ...

The idea of textile patterns of the Renaissance may not get your blood boiling, but there’s no denying that the current exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Fashion and Virtue ...