Falling from the tip of a brush suspended in mid-air, an ink droplet touches a painted surface and blossoms into a masterpiece of ever-changing beauty. It weaves a tapestry of intricate, evolving ...

Dendritic painting is an artistic technique that involves depositing mixtures of ink and rubbing alcohol onto paint spread on a substrate, producing branching, tree-like patterns. Two physicists have ...

Branching out: Fractals emerge when inks mixed with alcohol are applied to a surface coated with a layer of acrylic paint (Courtesy: Akiko Nakayama) Two researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science ...