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)

This one is a stunner! Now I'm thinking about the next level: define a number of classes of procedurally generated patterns and let LLM decide overall sentiment relevance per page and make it somewhat logical across the document.

Rebuild the document a few times, change the temperature, and choose the best.

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.

Gorgeous but the AI text is so grating.

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

Readme is AI. :/

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

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

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.

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!

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.

This is beautiful, thank you!

Quite beautiful.

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.

This is beautiful - thanks for sharing.

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

This is so pretty. Thanks for sharing.

This is gorgeous! Great idea!

YES THIS IS WHAT I NEED

Now do it in Typst.

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