Generative Botanica
Spring 2026
where algorithms take root and start flowering
This is a digital greenhouse where computational algorithms have taken root and started flowering. Each project begins as a mathematical seed -- a set of parameters, a growth rule, an initial condition -- and is cultivated through iterative refinement until it blooms into something that feels both precisely calculated and wildly organic.
The work lives at the intersection of cottagecore warmth and algorithmic precision. Dried herbs hanging from oak beams meet particle systems. Pressed flowers under glass meet Voronoi tessellations. Weathered wood grain meets fractal branching. The mathematics underlying natural growth has become visible to the naked eye.
Every piece starts with observation -- a walk through a garden, a close look at the pattern of seeds in a sunflower head, the branching of frost on a window. These natural patterns are then translated into mathematical models: reaction-diffusion equations, L-system grammars, Voronoi generators, phyllotaxis spirals.
The translation is never literal. The goal is not simulation but evocation -- to capture the feeling of growth, of organic complexity, of the wild order that emerges when simple rules are given room to iterate.
"The golden ratio appears in sunflower spirals and I cannot stop talking about it."
Canvas API for real-time generative rendering. GLSL shaders for reaction-diffusion simulations. JavaScript for L-system grammar interpretation. CSS Grid for the garden-plot layout that holds it all together. Every tool chosen because it enables organic expression within digital constraints.