Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX

(github.com)

83 points | by nanna 3 hours ago

10 comments

  • nico 1 hour 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
  • bonzini 1 hour ago
    Readme is AI. :/
    • forgetfulness 16 minutes ago
      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.

  • whimsicalism 1 hour 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.
    • jihadjihad 55 minutes 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

      • ggsp 1 minute ago
        I had no clue about anthology’s etymology. Very cool!
  • aanet 25 minutes ago
    This is so pretty. Thanks for sharing.
  • Avicebron 1 hour ago
    Definitely taking a closer look at this after work, awesome job.
  • james_marks 39 minutes ago
    This is beautiful, thank you!
  • b19n 1 hour 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.
  • coreyp_1 1 hour ago
    Quite beautiful.
  • RGS1811 43 minutes ago
    This is gorgeous! Great idea!
  • LeTeutz 1 hour ago
    YES THIS IS WHAT I NEED