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Issue 7 2/8/2001 News for Staff of UW-Madison Libraries

 

The color of physics

Fractal art in Physics LibraryArtwork with a twist by Physics Professor Clint Sprott -- nine brightly colored fractal images -- grace the walls of the Physics Library. As described in the Dec. 13 Wisconsin Week story, "Fractals are the offspring of the marriage of art, science and technology. They are generated by a computer to graphically represent solutions to mathematical equations."

Fractal art in Physics Library

See many more images of Sprott's work on his Web page, at
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/fractals.htm