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What makes a tree a tree? Or rather, why can we recognize trees in even quite abstract depictions when they are so varied in nature? Researchers have found a clue in the branches, and used math to ...

Cleveland Dean, “The Glorious Realization of Uncomfortable Power” (2015), acrylic on burned, distressed wood, 48″ x 36″ (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) CHICAGO — In the entire history of ...

The math that describes the branching pattern of trees in nature also holds for trees depicted in art—and may even underlie our ability to recognize artworks as depictions of trees. The authors begin ...

Installation view of Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg, Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time, and Technology at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles (all photos David S.

Do artists and scientists see the same thing in the shape of trees? As a scientist who studies branching patterns in living things, I’m starting to think so. Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century ...

An artist has launched a project to showcase the thousands of trees which were lost or damaged when Storm Goretti hit Cornwall. Charlie Thacker, a woodworker living in the county, said he wanted to ...