Patches of Blue

[rejectomorph]

This storm (if storm it can be called- more of a nimbul drip, really) may have been a mediocrity at producing precipitation, but it is breaking up nicely. The afternoon sky has been a splendid display of silver, gray, blue and white, with shafts of light falling now and then to pick out some spot for the sun's special favor: first, some golden patch of oaks, then the deep green wall of a stand of pines, then the dark red of the dogwood, and again the oaks- each flash of color bursting from its dim surroundings, basking for a moment, then surrendering the spotlight to some other feature of the wet landscape. Every plant is bejeweled with drops of water, and every surface dark with damp.

The contrast betwee front yard and back is now remarkable. In the back yard, the walnut tree has dropped all but a few of its bright leaves, and its twiggy shadow now casts a ffiligreeacross the brocade it has lain on the lawn. In the front yard, the fruitless mmulberrystill holds most of its foliage, the outer leaves having turned a pale yellow green, and the under layer of leaves still a darker green. When the sun shines through the front window, it seems almost like spring, but all I need do to see the approach of winter is look out the back.

Still, the most arresting sight the day affords is that ttumultuous variegated sky, with its tumble of light and shade. I could watch it for hours.





Consistency, presented by crokocat.

My name is..

I consist of my friends!

Wanna know your consistence?

Comments

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I'm up in the upper left of your first L!

[rejectomorph]

I've turned out to be mauve in this one, too, but I share that color (or a shade so near I can't tell the difference) with another person this time. The code that determines the color for each link apparently uses the names to do so. It's nice that it's consistent, and not just random. But mine looks to have a lot more green in it than yours did.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Very odd.. I would like to see the method behind the madness.

[rejectomorph]

I've noticed that edbook is represented by the same color in both your name and mine, too- sort of a greeny-pale-blue. (He's near the lower right of your first "t" and on the top non-dot row of my first "i".) To represent every name at LJ by a different shade, though- there would be some very subtle gradations there! I wonder if any computers can display 5,000,000+ shades?

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

perhaps it's some permutation of the name... would a user named "booked" get the same color as "edbook" ?

[rejectomorph]

I'm doubtful. On my results, the user represented by the color most like my own shade of mauve is aurora_adora, which is not a very close match of names. If very different names get much the same color, then very similar names might just as easily get quite different colors.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

hmm.. maybe it's a sum of the letters?

[rejectomorph]

I'm thinking that, each unique name being read as a unique sequence of ones and zeros by the computer, it probably wouldn't be difficult for the machine to associate that string with another unique sequence of ones and zeros that represent a particular color. (If that makes sense. It's been ages since I studied a bit of this stuff.)