the swirls in the painting’s night sky begin to move and the whole image seems to warp – as if it has a life of its own. The mind-bending illusion has been around for a while, but was recently ...

the artist said when her Night Sky: Venus and Mercury showed in the Basel cathedral adjacent to the city’s marquee art fair in 2010. “The work provides a [virtual] representation of the ...

The atmospheric motion of the painted sky cannot be ... this famous ‘Starry Night’ painting, it mimics the real flow,” Huang said. Beattie agreed: “It’s an amazing coincidence that ...

NEW YORK — An astrophotographer who has snapped images of the cosmos from a driveway in Connecticut is taking center stage in a Brooklyn space art exhibit ... of the night sky for years.

Researchers replaced the night sky in the painting with simulated supersonic turbulence, processed to resemble the original painting. Now, a new study in the journal Physics of Fluids tries to ...

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