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speckled or dotted areas on foliage or bark.

stippling (Wikipedia)
"Stipple" redirects here. For the company, see Stipple (company). For gingival stippling, see Stippling (dentistry).

Stippling is the creation of a pattern simulating varying degrees of solidity or shading by using small dots. Such a pattern may occur in nature and these effects are frequently emulated by artists.

Capodimonte porcelain jar painted in the stipple style of Giovanni Caselli with three figures of Pulcinella from the commedia dell'arte, 1745–1750
graphics complex of a seashell with stipple shading modeled in Mathematica 13.1
graphics complex of a seashell with stipple shading modeled in Mathematica 13.1
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