Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX

 (github.com)

154 points | by nanna 5 hours ago

19 comments

  • scott_codie 30 minutes ago
    In the reddit post, it is clear the person who came up with this didn't want it to be copied. I feel sad for that person.
  • lkm0 1 hour ago
    In the same vein, a few years ago, somebody implemented procedural decorations for a recreation of Byrne's "Elements of Euclid" in LaTeX: https://github.com/jemmybutton/byrne-euclid

    (bottom of the readme)

  • archermarks 2 hours ago
    Gorgeous but the AI text is so grating.
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    • artursapek 30 minutes ago
      It's so recognizable lol. All the staccato.
  • vessenes 44 minutes ago
    Nice. I like that different print runs will have different procedurally generated flowers; nice touch.
  • bbor 9 minutes ago
    Am I miffed that something I've tried multiple times with the latest models has been accomplished here so beautifully, and in LUA (!!!) nonetheless? A little! But it's worth it to know that it is indeed possible...

    Great work. I doubt you care, but try not to get caught up in the idea that you might have violated someones god-given property rights by making pretty flowers for fun in the margins of PDFs.

  • bonzini 3 hours ago
    Readme is AI. :/
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  • ClaraForm 2 hours ago
    This is beautiful, thank you!

    I just asked Deepseek 4.1 Flash to convert it to an Obsidian extension that uses the file-name as the seed, and the result [1] is exactly something I've been dreaming of for so many years while I take daily notes.

    [1] imagepaste.org/i/8zu627ud.png

  • nico 3 hours ago
    Very impressed with both the cool idea and visuals, as well as the technical details. Had no idea you could do animations in Latex/PDF. So beautiful! Thank you for sharing
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  • whimsicalism 3 hours ago
    I think the phrase 'florilegium' must be an AI basin of sorts as I've had it suggested by AI as a name for a few projects of my own.
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    • jihadjihad 3 hours ago
      It's basically a Latin version of the Greek anthology [0], but far less commonly used. I'd imagine it occupies similar territory to anthology in high-dimensional space, though, so seems reasonable for an LLM to pick it up.

      0: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anthology

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      • ggsp 2 hours ago
        I had no clue about anthology’s etymology. Very cool!
  • skyberrys 1 hour ago
    I love it!!! I've tried years ago to make something like this, it didn't work out. But it makes me so happy to see that you did it! Great job!
  • james_marks 2 hours ago
    This is beautiful, thank you!
  • coreyp_1 3 hours ago
    Quite beautiful.
  • b19n 3 hours ago
    There are (many) times lately where I have become completely disillusioned with software, despise it at work and at home. But then I see something beautiful like this and feel marginally better.
  • fch42 2 hours ago
    This is beautiful - thanks for sharing.
  • Avicebron 3 hours ago
    Definitely taking a closer look at this after work, awesome job.
  • aanet 2 hours ago
    This is so pretty. Thanks for sharing.
  • RGS1811 2 hours ago
    This is gorgeous! Great idea!
  • LeTeutz 3 hours ago
    YES THIS IS WHAT I NEED
  • ligarota 1 hour ago
    Now do it in Typst.

    Edit: sad that is AI. And that explains why it's in LaTeX

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    • fiforpg 1 hour ago
      If not for AI, the project would have remained where it was born: in the author's head.

      I do understand your sentiment, of course.