Tree branches in art throughout history follow geometric rules related to fractal geometry. 'Almond blossom' by Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Do artists and scientists see the same ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s sketch of a tree illustrates the principle that combined thickness is preserved at different stages of ramification. The math that describes the branching pattern of trees in ...

There are a handful of deep symbolic "forms," as Joel Smith, the Peter C. Bunnell curator of photography at the Princeton University Art Museum, sees it. The circle, the spiral, the arrow, the grid, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mitchell Newberry, University of New Mexico (THE CONVERSATION) Do artists and ...

Tree branches in art throughout history follow geometric rules related to fractal geometry. 'Almond blossom' by Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.