I first noticed this with airplanes.  Those that looked fast almost always were.  Then I noticed it with sailboats, and with cars.  One day it dawned on me that anything that operates in a fluid will have an aesthetic value that is actually predictable.

I believe that aesthetics has an evolutionary basis.  For example, baby anythings are so cute and adorable they actually cause parents to care for them.  And of course, the concept of infinity does not begin to describe what men will do to have sex with an attractive mate.

So, since aesthetics can be used to explain human behavior, I have wondered what other applications a lust for beauty can put to.  Hence my interest in the shapes produced from the study of fluid dynamics.

Rembrandt and I happen to think windmills are beautiful.


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