The unexpected math behind Van Gogh's "Starry Night" – Natalya St. Clair
The unexpected math behind Van Gogh's "Starry Night" – Natalya St. Clair
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Physicist Werner Heisenberg said, “When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.” As difficult as turbulence is to understand mathematically, we can use art to depict the way it looks. Natalya St. Clair illustrates how Van Gogh captured this deep mystery of movement, fluid and light in his work.
Lesson by Natalya St. Clair, animation by Avi Ofer.
Shouldn’t the second ‘g’ be pronounced in "Van Gogh"? i.e. more like ‘Gog’ than ‘Go’!
I loved the piece that depicted a chemistry teacher transforming into the emotionless Heisenburg
What’s turbulence please? can anybody translate the meaning, describing it in English (or Greek if he’s Greek)
Poor Vincent. How could be saved from his sufferings?
The narration for this though, the descriptions are beautiful.
Thank you for this. Forgive me for adding, it is Van Gogh, Gough as in cough.
Very insightful and interesting points regarding “Turbulent Flow” and the theory therein. Your history of Vincent is just that, Just theory!
All just a bunch of BS. What’s next? The hole perfectly fits the puddle? It’s observable so there is no reason to believe Van Gogh used or knew of any mathematics when he painted.
Breaking bad refference
To me starry nights look like my view without glasses. -6.5 in both eyes
All the intelligence puting inside our tiny brain
He didn’t paint from his bedroom, instead he painted from memory in the room that was his studio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-eBUMUk4hk
What?!!!!!!!!!!! Very cool.
I like art, actually. I love art one day 💗
Van Gogh is pronounced van gog. It irritates me that you do a whole video about a picture of him, without finding out how to pronounce his name.
Please, Please, Please try to pronounce van Gogh close to its Brabant pronunciation (I originate from there). The pronunciation in this bears almost no similarity to the correct regional pronunciation – except for the ‘n’ in ‘van’ being almost right. (Note: _van_ starts with a lower case _v_ ). For a start you could try pronouncing the _o_ in _Gogh_ as a short _o_ rather than a long one.
I’m still convinced van Gogh had awful myopia and astigmatism. Starry Night is just how I see the world when I take my glasses off.
This makes the most sense I have ever come across. It fits perfectly with Music that is simply the turbulence of air and responds most strongly with the 5:3 ratio.
I know that this is old, but I realized – for some reason, Van Gogh’s art helps me clear my mind when my mental health is really poor. It’s strange, considering his tragic story. But for a reason I do not comprehend, it soothes me.
Do you suppose VG actually saw the world differently?
The strobo-effect is very annoying… For people who suffer from epilepsia not to stand. Can’t watch until the end, even without epilepsy. 😱
Sad. Because the title sounded interesting.
The town was normal and the sky was wild and moving.
I wonder if it was windy then.
Oh I can explain turbulence. 😂
using technology to explain art will go far from the art
Interesting perspective on art, interesting research. Now I have to work on understanding …
Let’s not praise Vincent for ‘inventing’ this – he was a cursed mind for seeing how things were. Pity the rest of the world was not there at the right time…
23:06
I think… he painted a short period of light ; our lives , just a little moment in the dark universe..
The art is inspired by God the brain is the receiver it’s quite straight forward always the missing element in science is Infinite intelligence the source of all things. It is our intuition our inspiration it is the path migrating animals follow. It is the source of all life.
I think he just had bad eye sight and that’s how stars looked to him this could be a theory who knows 🤷♀️
HE DIDN’T CUT OFF HIS OWN EAR! FFS! HE LOST IT IN A FIGHT WITH ANOTHER ARTIST!!
Vortex Patterns
Imma just cry…
I’m an English learner and this is so helpful for me!
I thought this was gonna about the golden ratio
Definition of reading into it.
Be honest , Van Goch was a Sick by Ménière’s disease .
This disease’s symptom and an Goch’s symptoms are according .
Because , he was Ménière’s disease .
Ménière’s disease is known that happens by Stresses .
Van Goch had had stresses a lot in his life , almost something financial problems .
And , it was 19th century , now a day , we know diseases what kind of sick or illness or disease by Medical studies , but , at 19th century , people had believed God by Christianity with ‘ Spiritual ‘ things , Not Science .
Art things people doesn’t want to believe Can Goch was something in ‘ Disease ‘ , it was his talent ? they want to believe .
But , I like to see paintings at museums , Be Honest , Science is Science .
Van Goch’s talent includes his Sick , whole his life .
Art people shouldn’t be afraid of Can Goch was Ménière’s disease .
It was a pert of his life .
need new narrator STAT! the mansplaining is strong with this one
It’s wonderful that the animation is inspired by Van Gogh’s art 💫
2:37
Big whirls have little whirls
That feed on their velocity,
And little whirls have lesser whirls,
And so on to viscosity.
(Lewis Fry Richardson)
We learned of Eddies in Meterology class in college. But never about Eddies in stars in Astronomy class
In much of the voice-over, what we get is a string of insufficiently explanatory assertions. This might be a string of actual facts. It might be artsy pseudo-scientific quackery. No way to tell, and that might be the point.
Slow down. Dwell on points long enough to convey understanding. This kitchen sink stuff is tedious.
Good video 👍
Lead poisoning also exhibits the symptom of rings around light sources in ones vision. It was common among painters to shape the tip of a paintbrush using their mouth.
Maybe he knew it, maybe he didn’t. But he saw it!
Real creativity is an encounter with something.
– The Courage to Create
Americans have mispronounced almost every Slavic name, sometimes it seems they are doing it on purpose. 😀
The name Kolmogorov has emphasis on the third syllable, not the second.
LEAVE MATH OUT OF ART NERDS!!!
I feel like episodes like Van Goghs shows the interwoven reality of the world where our brains seem to know things they can’t even articulate and can even reveal them but sometimes only when we are semi detached from the world