Science and art have always been inextricably linked. Before ‘art’ and ‘science’ were subjects in a text book scientist and artists were one and the same.
Fascinating discovery in Physics of Fluids. Van Gogh, knowingly or not, accurately depicted fluid mechanics. Laws of physics that wouldn’t be proven for decades. This depiction isn’t only on the broad strokes either: “On a microscopic scale, the scientists found that the brushstrokes and the visual effects of the paints’ viscosity also align with Batchelor’s law”
Did he know? Was it keen observation, intuition or coinidence?
Via Hyperallergic:
The research team examined the length of, space between, and varying luminance of van Gogh’s brushstrokes from each of the 14 whirling eddies in “The Starry Night,” and found that the composition intrinsically observes Richardson–Kolmogorov’s cascade picture of turbulence, specifically Kolmogorov’s −5/3 Power Law. Put simply, this predicts that turbulent flows experience energy cascades during which larger eddies transfer some of their energy into smaller ones, and that those, in turn, transfer their energy into even smaller eddies, and so on.
Read more! And in the paper Hidden turbulence in van Gogh’s The Starry Night
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