Scientists are using similar techniques to determine authorship of disputed literaryworks. Taken together, their findings suggest a surprisingly tangible link between art and science: a painter's every brush stroke and a writer's every word leave behind a unique creative signature--a computer-readable mathematical fingerprint.
Citation:
Pam Frost Gorder, "Digital Detectives Reveal Art Forgeries," Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 5-8, Mar./Apr. 2005, doi:10.1109/MCSE.2005.30