My postdoc spotted this paper, and I thought you might “enjoy" as an interesting response to what was clearly perceived as an over-interpretation of the science in art and of the scientific intuition of artists.
I wonder what he’d make of Hokusai (or, in Pythonese, "Lucky I didn't say anything about the dirty knife.” :-)
As for me, it doesn’t diminish my sense of wonder about either Van Gogh or turbulence, and it puts me in mind of one of my favourite (ironic) quotes: "Pedagogical simplicity is inevitably achieved at some cost of verisimilitude.” [Holmes, in Tauber’s “Beautiful Experiments in the Life Sciences”]
/das.
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