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10-tide-pool

The reference was `output/mushroom-hero-frames/gen-procedural.py` — a ~80-line zero-dependency Python that generates a field of mushrooms using cellular automata-inspired growth on a character grid, then writes a `.txt` file. Simple. Seeded. Reproducible.

The plate

Fig. 170 across, 37 down.

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   the pool remembers every tide

When

Has not led the front.

With

Its own note names no primer.

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