Public Talk
by Professor Richard Taylor
Dramatically referred to as ‘the fingerprint of life’, fractals have been shown to be the basic building block of many of nature’s patterns, ranging from clouds, trees and mountains through to our brains, blood vessels and lungs. Perhaps the most staggering factor in the story of fractals is that artists have been capturing these patterns in their artworks long before these recent scientific breakthroughs. Examples include Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings of turbulent rivers, Jackson Pollock’s epic organic paintings and M.C. Escher’s mind-bending prints.
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