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Florilegium: Procedural Flower Generation in LaTeX Using Lua
Key points
- Florilegium package generates procedural floral margins in LaTeX.
- Uses Lua to compute and paint parametric curves directly into PDFs.
- Designs adapt to the text layout, filling unused page space.
- No external images or assets are required for the floral generation.
Procedural Floral Margins for LaTeX
Florilegium is a new LaTeX package that creates procedural floral page margins. The system generates Delft-blue floral designs directly into PDF documents. It operates without relying on external images, imported paths, or other assets; every petal, leaf, and stem is a parametric curve calculated in Lua as the page is being written.
Dynamic Generation and Layout
The package uses hand-authored primitives with randomized parameters, painted in Lua. A procedural layout algorithm, which incorporates a 1998 concept for filling unused space, places these elements. This allows the floral compositions to adapt to the available space on each page, creating a unique 'garden' for every document.
The generation process is dynamic; the same code with different seeds produces varied compositions. The system can also respond to document elements, such as setting initials within a floral tile.
Technical Implementation
The floral elements are painted like watercolors and written directly into the PDF. The growth of the composition is recorded during page layout, with stems drawn as prefixes of increasing length and motifs at various scales. This allows for animated replays of the growth process, demonstrating how branches extend to fill available space.
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A new LaTeX package, Florilegium, generates procedural floral page margins using Lua. It creates unique, Delft-blue floral designs directly into PDFs without external assets, adapting to available page space. The system uses hand-authored primitives with randomized parameters and a procedural layout algorithm.