Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX

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)

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vessenes 7 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Nice. I like that different print runs will have different procedurally generated flowers; nice touch.

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archermarks an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Gorgeous but the AI text is so grating.

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ClaraForm an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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bonzini 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Readme is AI. :/

	▲	Thomashuet an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Not just the README, all of it. The author gives more details about it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/LaTeX/comments/1xixznw/comment/19rv...
	▲	forgetfulness 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		This would have hit harder ten years ago, TeX ornamentation was a beautiful craft in all senses of the word. This is still pretty neat, but it's just not the same as carrying the tradition of Donald Knuth.

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skyberrys an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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!

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nico 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

	▲	WillAdams 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It was rather more prosaic, but I did put a flipbook typographic animation into the printed version of my article on Zapfino in _TUGboat_ https://tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb24-2/tb77adams.pdf

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whimsicalism 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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 2 hours ago | parent [-]

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

	▲	ggsp 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I had no clue about anthology’s etymology. Very cool!

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james_marks 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is beautiful, thank you!

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ligarota 34 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Now do it in Typst.

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

	▲	fiforpg 30 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		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.

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fch42 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is beautiful - thanks for sharing.

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coreyp_1 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Quite beautiful.

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b19n 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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Avicebron 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Definitely taking a closer look at this after work, awesome job.

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aanet 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is so pretty. Thanks for sharing.

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RGS1811 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is gorgeous! Great idea!

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LeTeutz 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

YES THIS IS WHAT I NEED