This crossed my desk via The Dangerous History Podcast (topic: emergent vs. imposed order) this morning: Why Fractals Are So Soothing at The Atlantic. The article links to this paper in Nature, Fractal analysis of Pollock's drip paintings (1999). Here's a bonus article in Smithsonian by the author of that paper, Fractal Patterns in Nature and Art are Aesthetically Pleasing and Stress-Reducing.
Both of these are worth your time, and both are mercifully short. (In fact, I didn't know that The Atlantic ever published articles that didn't devour at least an hour of my free time.) Anyway, this is just a continuation of the topic previously discussed here at the blog: This is Your Brain on Broken Fractals, Modern Architecture, WWI-Induced PTSD, and Other Ongoing Problems, and finally the excellent blog The Genetics of Design.
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