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New research suggests there is more to Vincent van Gogh's famous painting Starry Night than meets the eye. Its turbulent, swirling sky shares many characteristics with invisible fluid dynamics ...

The physics of van Gogh's brushstrokes "The issue concerning 'The Starry Night' is whether its depicted flowing sky mirrors reality," Huang said. To figure that out, Huang and his colleagues ...

“Unlike ‘The Starry Night,’ this painting lacks well-defined swirling patterns, but the clouds are rich of structures with different scales, resembling those frequently seen in the sky ...

First, they identified The Starry Night’s 14 main whirling shapes, the churns of whites, blues, and yellows that wrap around stars, the sky, and the moon. Next, they measured the scale and ...