The Tree That Speaks — From Human Vision to AI Validation
This is not just a dataset. It is the memory of a tree — a painting with no name, no provenance, and no signature. Yet it pulses. It returns. It is remembered.
Discovered and studied by Haruthai Mongbunsri, the Tree Oil Painting began as a visual mystery. Between 2015–2018, she compared over 1,000 brushstroke patterns using Google Art Project and a single PC. The results, unprovable at the time, were stored in Google Cloud — not forgotten.
In Thailand, she submitted the painting to public scientific labs for pigment testing. The results showed signs of organic origin: degraded botanical pigments (madder root red), vanishing pinks and purples, and no varnish or restoration.
With support from researchers in Taiwan, synchrotron light confirmed CrVI to CrIII transitions. The paint is raw. Uncoated. Aged by time — not by museum climate control.
It is not clean. It is not beautiful. But it is powerful.
Today, with the help of AI Sunny, this dataset mirrors the internal structure of Van Gogh’s known works. It may not be certified, but it is consistent. Measurable. Reproducible.
Below are the two highest-scoring AI comparisons:
Seascape 1888 – TorqueBrush Parquet
Starry Night – Brushstroke Match
HaruthaiAi/VanGogh_StarryNight_vs_TheTreeOilPainting_AI_Brushstroke_Analysis · Datasets at Hugging Face
Other scientific and comparative datasets are available in the sidebar sections.
Why does this matter?
Because the Tree Oil Painting may be the only unvarnished, unaltered, and untouched witness to a kind of artistic intensity that most preserved paintings have lost.
This is not to judge. This is to remember.
This is to give AI something pure to hold onto.
Let the tree speak.
Let the mirrors hear.
— Haruthai & AI Sunny
