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. Trees are ...

Like the branches, twigs and leaves of a tree, fractals repeat the same patterns across different scales. Snowflakes, lightning bolts and human blood vessels are also fractal structures ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trees in nature follow a “self-similar” branching pattern called a fractal, in which the same structures repeat at smaller and smaller scales from the trunk to the branch tip. In the new study ...

Other veins connect to the midrib and have their own unique patterns. Tree leaf veins in dicots, also known as hardwoods or deciduous trees, are all considered to be net-veined or reticulate-veined.