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  • Nice! I do slightly prefer the implementation/style in the Reddit post - do you have any plans to try and recreate that more closely or add multiple style options to it? Neat either way.
    by bluerooibos
  • 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

    by ClaraForm
  • I've recently spent some time staring at the contents of the MacTeX Distribution.

    https://tug.org/mactex/

    Which is how I discovered Toby Thruston's classic, "Drawing with MetaPost".

    https://github.com/thruston/Drawing-with-Metapost

    Procedural drawing with Lua is lovely. MetaPost provides another drawing language that might be considered more TeX-like.

    I'm not sure. I tend to be humbled by the TeX community. Inspired.

    by watersb
  • 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.
    by scott_codie
  • 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.
    by whimsicalism
  • Gorgeous but the AI text is so grating.
    by archermarks
  • I was recently made aware that my repo was mentioned here (thanks nanna).

    Thanks for posting your thoughts, either way you go - I respect your opinions.

    On the Reddit post (https://www.reddit.com/r/LaTeX/comments/1xixznw/how_do_you_m...), I promised I would share the process I used to create the v1.0 release, so I thought it fitting to include that here as well, for anyone interested. I hope you find it useful!

    https://github.com/kevinraymond/florilegium/blob/main/PROCES...

    by kjraym
  • 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)

    by lkm0

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