Nature, art and indifference

Nature of Art Therapy

Fractals: A Resonance between Art and Nature

The discovery of fractal patterns was an interesting advance in the understanding of nature [1, 2]. Since the 1970s many natural scenes have been shown to be composed of fractal patterns. Examples include coastlines, clouds, lightning, trees, rivers and mountains. Fractal patterns are referred to as a new geometry because they look nothing like the more traditional shapes such as triangles and ...

Uncomfortable images in art and nature.

The ratings of discomfort from a wide variety of images can be predicted from the energy at different spatial scales in the image, as measured by the Fourier amplitude spectrum of the luminance. Whereas comfortable images show the regression of Fourier amplitude against spatial frequency common in natural scenes, uncomfortable images show a regression with disproportionately greater amplitude a...

Art and Nature in Ancient Mechanics

In this paper I discuss the art-nature relationship in Greco-Roman antiquity with special reference to one important ancient art or technê: mechanics. Although different ancient authors express different views about the goals, methods, and scope of mechanics, they tend to agree in conceiving it as a technê, an art or science, involving a combination of various kinds of theoretical and practical...

Crystallographic patterns in nature and Turkish art

In this paper, crystallographic aspects of ancient, medieval and modern Turkish ornaments are dealt with. Crystallographic patterns (CPs) are considerably different from other patterns. The following are characteristic of CPs: the edge of ornament elements draws the edge of the figure; maximal compactness of the ornament elements; lack of background or transformation of background to ornament e...