The pre-eminent association for wood turners in the United States has issued a ban on a controversial process for using high-voltage electricity to create designs in wood because the technique has ...

Fractal burning creates distinctive Lichtenberg patterns on wood, resulting in branching designs that resemble natural forms.

“You don't usually associate beautiful works of art with death,” is how the TV news program Inside Edition began its Sept. 2 report on the dangers of fractal burning, also known as Lichtenberg. The ...

Wood burning, which goes by pyrography when it’s feeling fancy, has been an art form for centuries. [PapaJ06] puts a new twist on it by using a microwave oven transformer to generate fractal patterns ...

Investigators said that two people who were found dead in a fire in Wisconsin were killed when they were electrocuted while doing an art technique known as "fractal wood burning." Sheriff's deputies ...

Looking for an unusual Christmas present? How about giving someone a bolt of lightning? Bert Hickman creates stunning sculptures by blasting an acrylic block with a 2.5 million volt particle ...

Int 1777, Georg Lichtenberg found that discharging high voltage on an insulating surface covered with a powder, a fractal-like image appears, sometimes known as a lightning tree. Incidentally, this is ...

ROZELLVILLE, Wis. (WSAW/Gray News) - Authorities in Wisconsin are investigating a deadly fire where two people died in what looks to have been a tragic accident earlier this month. Marathon County ...

ROZELLVILLE, Wis. (WKBT) — Two people found dead after a fire in Marathon County two weeks ago were accidentally electrocuted while using a potentially perilous technique for an art project, according ...