Have you ever gazed at a woven basket, a painted rock, or a beaded garment and felt a strange sense of harmony—like the ...

Mehtaab Sawhney, who joined Columbia last year, enjoys the thorny work of proving a seemingly straightforward statement of ...

Our brain doesn't passively receive visual input—it actively orchestrates a symphony of neural oscillations to process the complex, dynamic scenes we see in everyday life.

“Rose Window 10,” created by Ithaca artist Werner Sun in 2022, is the result of an extended improvisation on mathematical ...

Muqarnas include more than just one type of architectural decoration, he explains. In fact, the term covers a diverse range ...

Two mathematicians now say they’ve made progress on a very old unsolved math problem. The problem involves a subfield called geometric measure theory, in which sets of objects are generalized in ...

Their findings suggest that the visual system of the prey may be overwhelmed by the strong motion produced by the stripes, causing them to fail to detect the looming cues of the approaching predator.

Mathematical patterns reveal profound truths about the universe and, surprisingly, about our inner lives as well. These five visual math concepts offer unique frameworks for understanding our ...

These findings shed light on which patterns of activity in the visual region of the brain lead to objects being perceived or not. Whether similar mechanisms operate in different regions of the brain ...