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LuaLaTeX package draws AI-crafted Delft-blue margins on the fly

florilegium procedurally generates Delft-blue floral ornaments for LaTeX page margins, using Lua code that draws each petal, leaf and stem as a vector curve directly into the PDF. No image files are needed; each page gets a unique garden that adapts to the free space left by the text.

Why it matters. Typographers, academic writers, and LaTeX enthusiasts can add handcrafted-looking botanical margins without external graphics and even tweak the designs with different random seeds.

Try it: Open the demo at https://kevinraymond.github.io/florilegium

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Today in one paragraph. Today’s batch shows AI agents moving from cloud to the desktop, with DeepSeek unveiling an autonomous coding agent that can navigate and modify GitHub repositories on its own. From Vercel’s Agent Desktop letting bots click through your UI to Cisco’s token-fueled code rewrite, the line between tool and teammate is blurring.

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