GoKawiilFlorilegium: LaTeX package draws procedural floral margins with no images
A developer built florilegium, a LaTeX package that generates Delft-blue floral page borders entirely from parametric curves computed in Lua at compile time, with no imported images or external assets. The package ships two example documents—one with hand-placed flower compositions and another where a greedy space-filling algorithm grows a plant to match whatever room is left on the page—plus a visualization showing the growth process seed by seed.
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The project shows how far programmatic generation inside a typesetting system can go, turning LaTeX from a text layout tool into a canvas for generative art rendered directly as vector output. Because every element is computed rather than embedded, the approach could let documents produce unique, infinitely varied decorative content without bloating file size or depending on external graphics files.
- florilegium generates flowers as parametric curves in Lua, written directly into the PDF with no external images
- It includes a 'grown' mode using a 1998 space-filling algorithm to adapt floral layout to leftover page space
- The package's documentation PDFs double as self-describing demonstrations of how the margins are drawn
Source: github.com, 2026-10-30
Published there as: “Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX”
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