When Vincent van Gogh painted “The Starry Night” 135 years ago, he captured a subjective feeling about the heavens. But, as it turns out, real science is also reflected in the iconic piece, a new study reveals about his brushstrokes.
In 1941, Russian mathematician Andrey Kolmogorov laid the foundation for the modern understanding of turbulence. But a new numerical analysis of what van Gogh had painted more than half a century earlier, published Tuesday in the journal Physics of Fluids, reveals he depicted a very realistic interpretation of turbulent clouds.
