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While most people will be soon wishing each other a happy Christmas, others may be celebrating a “Merry Swiftmas” and celebrating the joy of the season in the style of Taylor Swift. Allison Hudson, ...

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 ...

Visitors can browse from 50 designer-inspired trees, which are for sale, during this year’s event, themed “Enchanted Holidays.” The Council of 101 has raised $14 million over the years for the Orlando ...

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 ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s sketch of a tree illustrates the principle that combined thickness is preserved at different stages of ramification. The math that describes the branching pattern of trees in ...

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 ...