Living Stone Window Patterns

Lithops are round little succulents called "living stones" - they grow just below the surface in Namibia and South Africa, conserving water and taking in sunlight through their "windows" on the top.

The windows can be covered in an entrancing camouflage of islands, rorschach blots, polygonal webs, fractal fingers, warts and freckles, fatty marbling.

The "Lithops" font by Anne-Dauphine Borione communicates this entrancement effortlessly!

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Y'know, "living stones" remind me of another stone covered in entrancing patterns...

Carved Stone Balls!

Table of Correspondences

	Lithops	Carved Stone Balls
found in the ground	✔️	✔️
has patterned surface	✳	✳
difficult to grow/make	✔️	✔️
has knobs	✔️	✔️
is alive	✔️	❌
made of stone	❌	✔️

   KEY                                            

✔️yes   |   ❌no   |   ✳sometimes
 

*first row images are from this "blog article"

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Email is a Pain in the ASCII

Email can be really frustrating sometimes. You can't be certain what other people will see on their end. That's why most emails with "design" in them are 90% images.

I started making an ASCII art lithops for email and eventually gave up. Attempt below 😳.
 

``````````'`'`'```'``'~'~'''~

``````````'''~~☼~~``'`'`''

``*`````~~~`''~'~ '`'`'`'`'`'`'

``````▂▂▄▄▄▄▂▂''''''''''

`-``◢█▂█▚██▞█▂█◣'''''''

`~``███▚▚████▞▞███'''~

~```██▞█»██«█▚████''''''

''''◥███████████◤'''~''

▒▓▒▓▒◥████████◤▒▓▒▓▒

▓▒▓▒▓▒◥██████◤▒▓▒▓▒▓

▓▓▓▓▓▓▓◥████◤▓▓▓▓▓▓▓

▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓◥◤▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓

▓█▓█▓█▓/)█/ ▓█▓█▓█▓█▓

▓▓█▓█▓█\_//\/▓█▓█▓█▓▓█

██████/(_)█\████████▓

████████████\█████▓█☻

Compare to the webpage version and you'll see what I mean - email is difficult!

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Another Binomial Nancy

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as ever,

caey