Bart de Smit / Visual / Van Gogh meets Riemann |
Each picture is a view through the Riemann zeta-function of a painting of Van Gogh.
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]