<p>Ever wondered what you can do with the stone of a mango? A friend of mine showed me how to plant it and get a small mango tree. But it needs time to start growing, so to see an actual progress I've setup a daily snap device with a raspberry pi.</p>
<p>Well...and did more artsy stuff with the pictures.</p>
<h2>The setup</h2>
<p><img src="/assets/blog/plant/setup.png" alt="The setup photo">	</p>
<p>A raspberry pi with a camera and a lot of paper tape (btw best invention of human kind) makes a picture every morning from a growing mango seed.</p>
<p>The seed is planted within a gardening kid.</p>
<h2>The result</h2>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>The Colored Snapshot as Gif</th>
<th>The BW-Mask as Gif</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><img src="https://pi-shot.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/upload/color-grow.gif" alt="colored gif"></td>
<td><img src="https://pi-shot.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/upload/bw-grow.gif" alt="bw gif"></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2>The artsy version</h2>
<p><img src="/assets/blog/plant/pic0.png" alt="artsy screenshot"></p>
<p>Here is <strong>live</strong> the artsy visualization of the daily snaps using css masks and css filters:<br>
<a href="https://artistic-plant.fprager.de/">https://artistic-plant.fprager.de/</a>.</p>
<p>The background image is a photo from <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/gwnLJ2BQW1M">Claudio Schwarz</a>.
</p>


Artistic Plant

The setup

The result

The artsy version