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Fractal Scaling and the Aesthetics of Trees
- samstave 3y ago[flagged]
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- navane 3y agoJust looked at the pictures and captions, captivating. Worth for the last painting alone.
- vanderZwan 3y agoMost people aren't aware that Mondriaan was an established painter who started out with realistic paintings and only gradually became more abstract. "De Grijze Boom" is a very nice snapshot of this aesthetic transition.
- btbuildem 3y agoStaring at one of his paintings of rectangles at Musée des Beaux-Arts in Paris was when I felt like I for the first time understood abstract art.
- vanderZwan 3y agoOh yeah, there's something really different about actual paintings compared to photographs of them. Especially with abstract art you often have to see them in real life to "get them".
- mcphage 3y agoI remember reading an article about an instructor who was leading a class on generative art, and one of the students was trying to recreate Mondriaan-style artworks on the computer. But when they looked deeply into his art, they realized just how painterly his art was, even the "lines and boxes" pieces, in a way that was really difficult to replicate on a computer.
- Affric 3y agoThe images and captions made me read the article. Fantastic. Thought provoking.
- duderific 3y agoI often feel like if we could discover the deepest rules governing these kinds of behaviors in nature, it would give us a stronger basis for deriving a "theory of everything" than trying to reconcile classical vs. quantum physics.
- swayvil 3y agoIt might not be rules. It might be something deep and squishy like "intelligence" or "aesthetics".
- uoaei 3y agoRelated: Perceptual and physiological responses to Jackson Pollock’s fractals Comparing human responses to visual stimuli of fractal dimension similar to Jackson Pollock's works. Notably, the fractal dimension is remarkably similar to that of forest landscapes. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2011.00060/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2011.0006...
- neovialogistics 3y agoNot mentioned: do amateur paintings by others with the same techniques as Pollock produce features with a similar fractal dimension? My question is intended as a proxy for investigating how much of Pollock's quality is integral to the method regardless of artist skill.
- dekhn 3y agoReminds me of https://www.nature.com/articles/news020926-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/news020926-8 "The 500-year-old Ryoanji Temple garden in Kyoto contains five outcroppings of rocks and moss on a rectangle of raked gravel. Using symmetry calculations the researchers have discovered that the objects imply an image of a tree in the empty space between them that we detect, without being aware of doing so1." Full article: https://www.nature.com/articles/419359a https://www.nature.com/articles/419359a Brought to you by the part of my brain which remembers irrelevant nature articles some 20 years later.
- physPop 3y agoclassic paywall for publicly funded research
- hammock 3y agoReading the comments here, I can’t help but think that the insights of and math behind many of these examples are on the order of those websites that claim everything has a Fibonacci spiral in it, when it really doesn’t