He wondered about building Tetris, a Turing Machine, or rendering fractals purely in CSS and HTML. The jury is still out if a Turing machine is possible, but he did manage to generate some simple ...

The special effects in today's movies, which mix real actors with aliens and monsters, are generated in the computer. There is no limit to the fantasy world that can be created with computer ...

For more than two years, I’ve been exploring the world of digital photography using what have become known as "pro-sumer" cameras. Almost from the beginning, I was convinced that there were ways ...

The image of the Mandelbrot set is one of the most recognizable representations of a fractal. But what's behind the entrancing picture? In this interactive, learn a bit about how we generated our ...

Increasingly, computers are used to write original text, and when it comes to describing current and newsworthy events, it can sometimes be hard to tell the difference between the computer's ...

A knock-off called Oasis, released last month, captures much of the original game’s flavor with a remarkable and weird twist.

The RC2014 is a modular 8-bit computer in which daughter cards ... hours of typing in listings as a teenager. A BASIC-generated Mandelbrot fractal shows off the RC2014’s graphical capabilities ...

Self-similar fractals, multi-fractals and scaling methods are discussed, with examples, to facilitate applications in the physical sciences. Computer simulations and experimental studies are ...

Rep. Ted Lieu made his biggest impression with his opening line. (Hannah Beier/Bloomberg News) Rep. Ted Lieu (D., Calif.), a former California state legislator, made a case for Kamala Harris by ...

And when they lose trust, they can be manipulated. In 1999’s The Matrix, no one knows what’s real and what’s computer-generated, simulated reality. A quarter-century later, a flood of ...

Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is the application of computer graphics to create or contribute to images in art, printed media, video games, simulators, computer animation and VFX in films, ...