[HN Gopher] Fractal Scaling and the Aesthetics of Trees
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       Fractal Scaling and the Aesthetics of Trees
        
       Author : Luc
       Score  : 61 points
       Date   : 2024-02-26 09:40 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
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       | navane wrote:
       | Just looked at the pictures and captions, captivating. Worth for
       | the last painting alone.
        
         | vanderZwan wrote:
         | Most 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.
        
       | duderific wrote:
       | I 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 wrote:
         | It might not be rules. It might be something deep and squishy
         | like "intelligence" or "aesthetics".
        
       | uoaei wrote:
       | Related: Perceptual and physiological responses to Jackson
       | Pollock's fractals
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       | 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.
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       | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2011.0006...
        
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