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I walk through a valley in Easter Seal’s Camp Wawbeek in Wisconsin Dells. I look up to view icicles dripping onto the rocks ...

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Researchers found a hidden mathematical rule in tree-like art. Branch thickness follows a predictable ratio, making trees ...

Yet only “Gray Tree” has scale-invariant branch diameters. When Mondrian removes the scale invariance in “Blooming Apple Tree ...

The math that describes the branching pattern of trees in nature also holds for trees depicted in art—and may even underlie ...

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