20 differences

In order to enhance our understanding of tiny differences and gain a grounding in the fundamentals of design, we conducted an exercise called '20 differences' as a homework assignment, in this we selected 20 items with a similarity in that they would normally be considered the same, however we individually made lists of their differences, however slight. I chose dried and salted sunflower seeds purchased from the student store, 'Tro Gro', and made sure that the selection of the seeds for my experiment was as random as possible to ensure thet there was no bias towards particularly obscure individual seeds. The differences i noticed were:

-One seed has a slightly paler complexion than its peers

-One appears particularly short and fat

-One of the seeds has its edible centre bursting from the shell

-One does not have an edible centre as it is only half a shell

-One seed has a very solid complexion

-One seed, while dark, has several very vivid and very light coloured patches on it

-One seed has a much more obvious light line around its edge than its fellows

-One seed, instead of patches, has a lightly coloured line running vertically through it

-One seed appears tiny

-One seed has the majority of its shell covered with a light patch

-One seed has three light dots forming a perfect line up its side

-One seed appears to have more salt residue on it than others

-One seed has not one, but three vertical pale lines running up it

-One seed has a strange wrinkle in its shell

-One seed has a much browner overall complexion than the others

-One seed has a chipped point

-One seed is flat on one side, but bulging up at the other like a wing

-One seed has a light patch on it in the shape of Italy

-One seed has very little lightly coloured patching on it atall

-One seed has one vertical line by itself and two grouped closely together

-The half seed appears to have little salt residue on it

-One seed is extremely long and thin

-That seed also has no salt residue on it

-One seed goes very sharply to a point at one end

-One seed is extremely flat as though it does not have an edible centre

Note that all of the observations were based on the seeds around that particular seed and were all comparisons

-Greg McGanty