3 papers
cond-mat.stat-mech2026
From Random Walks to Thermal Rides: Universal Anomalous Transport in Soaring Flights
Jérémie Vilpellet, Alexandre Darmon, Michael Benzaquen
Cross-country soaring flights rely on intermittent atmospheric updrafts to cover long distances, producing trajectories that alternate between rapid relocation and local exploratio…
cs.HC2025
Harmonious Color Pairings: Insights from Human Preference and Natural Hue Statistics
Ortensia Forni, Alexandre Darmon, Michael Benzaquen
While color harmony has long been studied in art and design, a clear consensus remains elusive, as most models are grounded in qualitative insights or limited datasets. In this wor…
cond-mat.stat-mech2019
Beauty and structural complexity
Samy Lakhal, Alexandre Darmon, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud +1
We revisit the long-standing question of the relation between image appreciation and its statistical properties. We generate two different sets of random images well distributed al…