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@koosli

well this is an interesting development
@koosli

I recently learned about this thing that fruiting bodies have called a Calyx- it's the green leafy like bit at the base of a flower. On some fruit, like apples, the calix grows to form a skin around the fruit. On others like the eggplant/aubergine it becomes the leafy green bit at the base

On tomatillas it forms these elegant little shells.

What if the ruffly side bits. (I don't know what this part of a dress is called) on princess peach are a calyx?

My main issue here of course is I'm adding a complicated fungus/plant symbiosis theory here to explain the gown, when this exists as an actual mushroom:
https://giphy.com/gifs/ukCkcURV3rBvwJzBWG

A rough in of an "evolution of toad" animation I'm trying to block in. cc @koosli

@zwol @niconiconi @alexandra @Jaqueek it wasn’t just the hinting system. if you think a bytecode for hinting was bad, adobe’s postscript fonts were literally just programs in a scripting language in their entirety.

@alcinnz @zwol @niconiconi @alexandra @Jaqueek are there modern font formats other than opentype and woff?

@alcinnz @zwol @niconiconi @alexandra @Jaqueek
1. apple and microsoft created truetype in a joint effort to not pay adobe any licensing fees
2. opentype is truetype with some extra features
3. woff is just opentype

@alcinnz @zwol @niconiconi @alexandra @Jaqueek the main motivation for the creation of opentype is the world in which both truetype and postscript fonts exist snd are mutually incompatible really sucked - a lot. so they extended truetype to be able to contain postscript fonts and called it opentype. and added extra stuff like ligatures and alternates and stuff

@Steveg58 people can’t even agree on which direction a scroll wheel should scroll

@Anke thank you for being patient with my annoying and pedantic questions

@Anke i’m from the position of being annoyed that people exist that think differently from me and recognising that pattern as something I should be self criticial about. because diverse systems of thought are actually great for problem solving

@Anke so if you run towards it you’re running backward?

@Anke so if you thought that something happened a week ago, but it happened yesterday, you’re moving the event forward because it is closer to you?

@Anke so how can you move forward in time if you are always the same distance from yourself?

@Anke so to move forward in time, you imagine an observer in the future watching you deep in the past?

@Anke so it’s not a frame of reference thing? what did you mean by that?

@Anke so the frame of reference is an observer in the future that you are moving towards or it isn’t?

@liamvhogan @futzle as awkward as indian english hits my ears, i think they’ve figured a lot of important things out

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