clipped from: Before anybody knew Mandelbrot, artists were seeing fractals in nature and transfered the patterns in painting, design and sculpture. Fractals, as you know, are geometric patterns that are repeated on smaller and smaller scales to produce intricate designs outside the scope of classical geometry. They are described by a Mandelbrot equation.
1. Medieval Celtic Book of Kells (597 A.D.)
This cultural treasure contains every variety of design typical of Irish art at its best. The most characteristic ornaments of the Book of Kells, as of other illuminated Irish manuscripts of the period, are the closely coiled spirals connected with each other by a number of curves and terminating in the so-called "trumpet fractal pattern".
2. Fractals have a rich history in African Design:
fractals in typical Ethiopian ornaments;
in village architecture:
in village architecture:
3. Persian & traditional Islamic ornaments
4.The Italian Renaissance & Dutch Masters
Space Filling by Iteration:
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