treekind — iconkind

The form

treekind

A canopy carrying the family's own face, a trunk, and a root fan below the line. The face is not redrawn for it: the eye line is still 129 and the mouth zone still x 92-108, which is why a treekind reads as one of the family and not as an illustration of a tree. 5 crowns across 10 kinds — and the interesting half is underground.

Five crowns

A canopy here is a list of circles, so another kind of tree is another list. One rule governs every one of them: the crown must be SOLID across x 66-134 at the eye line, and nothing else may be drawn there. Break the first and the face sits on the background; break the second and the tree wears its own foliage as a fringe.

The round tree

the original — six overlapping lobes

The conifer

one mass, tiers on top — stacked cones pinch the eye line

The poplar

tall and narrow, still wide enough at the face

The ancient oak

wider than it is tall, sitting low over its roots

The willow

the weight hung outside the face, never across it

The wood

The kind palette as LEAF rather than skin: the same hue pushed toward green, so ten trees read as one wood rather than as ten unrelated plants. Bark and roots shift with it.

breeze

leaf · bark · roots

fawn

leaf · bark · roots

gleam

leaf · bark · roots

orbit

leaf · bark · roots

pebble

leaf · bark · roots

root

leaf · bark · roots

slate

leaf · bark · roots

spark

leaf · bark · roots

sprout

leaf · bark · roots

wisp

leaf · bark · roots

Leaning

A pair has to lean TOWARD each other or it is two trees standing near each other. The lean is drawn in coordinates rather than applied as a rotation — the canopy moves, the trunk slants to meet it — so nothing depends on a transform that a screen printer might read differently. Lean belongs to the round tree: a leaning poplar is a fallen poplar.

Leaning left

the canopy moves 18 units; the trunk follows

Leaning right

the canopy moves 18 units; the trunk follows

Underground

The links are real

Every kind carries a fifteen-position code, and kin similarity is how many positions two of them hold in common — the same number the register publishes. In a grove it decides how many strands run between two trees and how heavy they are. Wisp and Orbit share most of their code and you can see it; the pair at the far end share least, and you can see that too. The moodboard drew a pretty network. This one is a picture of something true, and it cost nothing extra because the numbers were already there.

Composed from treekind parts rather than redrawn, so a grove cannot disagree with the trees it is made of. The ground line belongs to the scene, not to a tree — three trees each drawing their own left a dashed line with a gap under every trunk.