Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tree branches in art throughout history follow geometric rules related to fractal geometry. 'Almond blossom' by Vincent van Gogh.

What makes a tree a tree? Or rather, why can we recognize trees in even quite abstract depictions when they are so varied in nature? Researchers have found a clue in the branches, and used math to ...

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, ...

Piet Mondrian painted the same tree in "The gray tree" (left) and "Blooming apple tree" (right). Viewers can readily discern the tree in "The gray tree" with a branch diameter scaling exponent of 2.8.

Dara Solomon, a curator at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, used to ignore trees. Now she sounds like an arborist. Almost two years ago, she began putting together the current ...