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Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX

79 points nanna 3 hours ago 12 comments

coreyp_1 1 hour ago | parent

Quite beautiful.

LeTeutz 1 hour ago | parent

YES THIS IS WHAT I NEED

b19n 1 hour ago | parent

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.

bonzini 53 minutes ago | parent

Readme is AI. :/

forgetfulness 7 minutes ago | parent

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.

Avicebron 53 minutes ago | parent

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

nico 52 minutes ago | parent

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

whimsicalism 52 minutes ago | parent

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 45 minutes 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

RGS1811 34 minutes ago | parent

This is gorgeous! Great idea!

james_marks 30 minutes ago | parent

This is beautiful, thank you!

aanet 15 minutes ago | parent

This is so pretty. Thanks for sharing.