Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' obeys a scientific law that was invented 52 years later. It reveals the painter's keen observations of nature.
To figure that out, Huang and his colleagues examined 14 swirls in a high-resolution image of "The Starry Night." Based on ...
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The hidden science swirling in ‘The Starry Night’
They found that “The Starry Night” was turbulent, and not just by artistic standards. A decade later, astrophysicist James Beattie analyzed the variations in luminance in a patch in the middle ...