Van Gogh meets Riemann

Each picture is a view through the Riemann zeta-function of a painting of Van Gogh.

click on one of the images above

These pictures were part of the Art exhibit at Bridges 2005 at the Banff Centre.

The picture on the left is displayed on a 15 by 9 foot backlit display in the cafeteria of the Mathematics Department in Leiden.

Brief mathematical explanation [PDF] - Animation [13M, MPEG1]