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<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta charset="utf-8"><title>milkweed · watercolour</title>
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<h1>Milkweed in bloom · recreated in watercolour</h1>
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<p class="note">A common-milkweed (<i>Asclepias syriaca</i>) umbel, painted with the bubble-chamber project's
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own wet renderer (<code>src/render/watercolor.js</code>) driven by a new umbel generator
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(<code>src/milkweed/umbel.js</code>). The conceit that made it fit: a milkweed umbel is a <i>radial
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event</i> — a hidden central node, pedicels radiating like tracks, each blooming into a five-pointed
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star at its tip. The bubble chamber's vertex and δ-ray spray, restated in botany; life wearing the
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shape of the particle event. Same pigment physics as the plates — Beer–Lambert subtractive optics,
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the wet edge, cold-press granulation, wet-into-wet bleed — only the geometry and the palette change
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(sap green, quinacridone rose, a pale corona crown that barely tints the paper). Deterministic from
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seed; herbarium caption from the shared archive-identity system.</p>
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<h2>The reference</h2>
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<figure class=ref><img src="reference-asclepias-syriaca.jpg"><figcaption><b>Reference</b> — <i>Asclepias syriaca</i> in full bloom: a domed cluster of open mauve star-flowers with pale corona crowns, deep-maroon buds, sage leaves.<br><span class="s">photo · Wikimedia Commons (Common_Milkweed_Bloom)</span></figcaption></figure>
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<h2>The recreations</h2>
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<figure><img src="01_bloom-monarch.png"><figcaption><b>Milkweed Bloom</b> — the recreation: a domed umbel of pink florets, pale-crowned, buds toward the rim, leaves splayed behind.<br><span class="s">milkweed · cream · MONARCH-3320</span></figcaption></figure>
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<figure><img src="02_bloom-asclepias.png"><figcaption><b>Asclepias</b> — a second specimen, same medium, a fuller cluster.<br><span class="s">milkweed · cream · ASCLEPIAS-7781</span></figcaption></figure>
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<figure><img src="03_bloom-prairie.png"><figcaption><b>Prairie</b> — a rounder dome; the wet-into-wet bleed unifies the florets into one pink haze.<br><span class="s">milkweed · cream · PRAIRIE-5562</span></figcaption></figure>
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<figure><img src="04_dewy-wetbleed.png"><figcaption><b>Dewy</b> — the medium turned wet: high wetness and bleed, soft edges, on cool blue-grey paper. A misted morning.<br><span class="s">milkweed · cool · wcWetness 1.5 / wcBleed 1.4 · SWAMP-1190</span></figcaption></figure>
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<figure><img src="05_drybrush-sepia.png"><figcaption><b>Dry-brush</b> — the opposite craft: drier, crisp wet edges, granulation turned up, on warm sepia. Late-summer, going to seed.<br><span class="s">milkweed · sepia · wcGranulate 1.35 / wcEdge 1.2 · AUTUMN-4408</span></figcaption></figure>
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</div>
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