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Published: 01 Jul 2018 › Updated: 01 Jul 2018 → Do You Know What Lightning Really Looks Like?

→ Do You Know What Lightning Really Looks Like?

Steph Yun, tells us about how painters in the past almost never painted lightning accurately in this fascinating story for the New York Times.

Paintings by artists over centuries have consistently underestimated the number of root-like veins in a lightning strike, researchers found.

Interesting!

Examples from the story, painting and real.

Head to the story to see many more examples.

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Back when I had my own website, I used to post a few random links everyday or every few days, in the style of http://kottke.org or http://daringfireball.net. Readers seemed to enjoy seeing them.

I will put an arrow (→) at the beginning of the title to show you guys it is a link post and that you can skip it if such things don't interest you.


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David is an Italian-American expat lost in Japan. A photographer, father, lover of haiku, and eater of natto. Here, there, and everywhere.

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