{"id":14919,"date":"2025-12-06T22:34:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T05:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14919"},"modified":"2025-09-24T15:57:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T22:57:48","slug":"van-goghs-turbulent-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14919","title":{"rendered":"Van Gogh&#8217;s Turbulent Night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Scientists using the Hubble space telescope discovered patterns of eddies and currents of dust around a distant star, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/van-gogh-painting-truly-seen-for-first-time-in-125-years-ex1\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/van-gogh-painting-truly-seen-for-first-time-in-125-years-ex1\">thought it looked a lot like Van Gogh&#8217;s Starry Night painting<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In digitizing and measuring the patterns in Van Gogh&#8217;s turbulent flows, they found the patterns of turbulent flow close to his end during a period of psychological difficulty closely matched Kolmogorov&#8217;s turbulent flow equations. Strangely, turbulent flow in his earlier paintings during a less troubled psychological time, did not exhibit this pattern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PMerSm2ToFY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists using the Hubble space telescope discovered patterns of eddies and currents of dust around a distant star, and thought it looked a lot like Van Gogh&#8217;s Starry Night painting. In digitizing and measuring the patterns in Van Gogh&#8217;s turbulent flows, they found the patterns of turbulent flow close to his end during a period of psychological difficulty closely matched Kolmogorov&#8217;s turbulent flow equations. Strangely, turbulent flow in his earlier paintings during a less troubled psychological time, did not exhibit&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14919\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3SD","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14920,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14919\/revisions\/14920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}