The math that describes the branching pattern of trees in nature also holds for trees depicted in art—and may ... Even abstract works of art that don't visually show branch junctions or treelike ...

Trees in nature follow a “self-similar” branching pattern called a fractal ... open image in gallery Leonardo da Vinci's sketch of a tree illustrates the principle that combined thickness ...

Trees depicted in the artwork of famous painters like Leonardo da Vinci and Piet Mondrian follow the math behind their branching pattern in nature, a new study says ... Leonardo da Vinci observed that ...