Turbulent luminance in impassioned van Gogh paintings

We show that the patterns of luminance in some impassioned van Gogh paintings display the mathematical structure of fluid turbulence. Specifically, we show that the probability distribution function (PDF) of luminance fluctuations of points (pixels) separated by a distance R compares notably well wi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Aragón, J, Naumis, G, Bai, M, Torres, M, Maini, P
Format: Journal article
Published: 2008