Van Gogh's "Starry Night" and NASA's "Perpetual Ocean"

Vincent van Gogh was certainly a visionary impressionistic painter, and definitely one who continues to inspire many contemporary artists of various styles today. His swirling "Starry Night" skies appear very similar to the digital images produced by this NASA/MIT/JPL computational model ECCO2, which created a computer visualization that shows the world's ocean surface currents from June 2005 through December 2007. This visualization is called "Perpetual Ocean", and was made in the Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, and what it shows is a "high resolution model of the global ocean and sea-ice". 


Additionally, this computer visualization was submitted to the SIGGRAPH 2011 Computer Animation Festival, but it wasn't selected by the jury.

To see this computer visualization please click the link below:
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003800/a003827/