When the holiday placemats came out I noticed some similarities in the gnomes that decorated each place. We wondered, how could one enumerate the artistic replications in the composition. preview 
pages/placemat-deconstructed
SVG shows distinct regions of the mat side by side demonstrating the image reuse. expand 
http://ward.dojo.fed.wiki/assets/pages/placemat-deconstructed/gnomes.html HEIGHT 470
Use ctrl-drag to reposition a gnome's viewBox. See console.log for revised origin. github
Todo: Transform holly images with rotate and mirror. Use this schematic to recognize the branch structure for acorns and berries: left (1) right (1) left 4 right 3 tip 2.
(1) 4 | | ------+------+---+-+---2 | | (1) 3
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Curiously this exercise in SVG manipulation has changed what comes to mind when I sit at the dinner table.