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Piet Mondrian painted the same tree in "The gray tree" (left) and "Blooming apple tree" (right). Viewers can readily discern the tree in "The gray tree" with a branch diameter scaling exponent of 2.8.

(CNN) — Trees depicted in famous artworks across a range of styles follow the same mathematical rules as their real-life counterparts, scientists have found. The math concept hidden in this tree art — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The central panel of Gustav Klimt's, "Tree of Life" triptych, painted around 1910 to 1911, was one of the artworks analyzed in the ...