In James L. Brooks’ 1997 romantic comedy “As Good As It Gets,” actor Greg Kinnear plays Simon, a gay painter thrown together with Carol, a single mother and waitress (Helen ...

Scientists have studied trees depicted in various works of art and found they contain fractals, following relatively simple ...

Where Art Meets Math In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the American cartoonist Crockett Johnson created a series of paintings on mathematical subjects. They’re based on theorems, laws, and ...

By using fractal math to calculate how the branches of trees are depicted in art, researchers can put a number on what makes for a realistic tree.

While bridging art and mathematics, ... "If you show this painting to anyone, it's obviously a tree," Newberry said. "But there's no color, no leaves and not even branching, really." ...

Until then, she seriously pursued several interests besides math: philosophy, painting and poetry. (“When I was 20, I think I did only mathematics and painting. That was maybe a bit excessive,” she ...

The study authors are not the first to apply math to trees in art. Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci observed tree growth and came up with his own mathematical rule for painting trees.

Scientists have studied trees depicted in various works of art and found they follow relatively simple mathematical rules also found in branching patterns in nature. CNN values your feedback 1.