Scientists have studied trees depicted in various works of art and found they contain fractals, following relatively simple ...

A fractal that generates mountain like terrain. António Miguel de Campos / Wikimedia Which brings me back to the tree. You can think of a tree as being fractal-like. Here’s a sketch of a tree.

By using fractal math to calculate how the branches of trees are depicted in art, researchers can put a number on what makes for a realistic tree.

Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century abstract artist and art theorist obsessed with simplicity and essence of form. Even ...

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Scientists have studied trees depicted in various works of art and found they follow relatively simple mathematical rules also found in branching patterns in nature.

Scientists have studied trees depicted in various works of art and found they follow relatively simple mathematical rules also found in branching patterns in nature.