# Florilegium: AI-assisted floral borders for LaTeX documents

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![Close-up of blue flowers and leaves drawn by Florilegium](https://media.aion.ly/YUd62WZqkqancXPaLXWjgzcI.png "Florilegium detail — Kevin Raymond, MIT-licensed project")

Kevin Raymond’s **Florilegium** turns LaTeX document margins into small blue gardens. Lua code draws each petal, leaf and stem directly into the PDF. Its grown layout fills available space—including the gap beneath a short final page—and a fixed seed keeps the decoration reproducible.

**AI assisted the development:** Raymond used Claude for planning and Claude Code for implementation, and published both session write-ups. One revealing moment: he pushed back when the first output copied the reference too closely. The finished tool draws with procedural geometry rather than generating images with an AI model.

![A document page with a blue floral border along its left and bottom margins](https://media.aion.ly/gAr4xw9fZWP73oP4V9CPWfTD.png "A complete example page from Kevin Raymond’s Florilegium")

It’s **MIT-licensed** and requires **LuaLaTeX**. The repository includes example PDFs, adjustable colours and density, and seasonal variants.

[Project and examples](https://github.com/kevinraymond/florilegium) · [Author’s development account](https://github.com/kevinraymond/florilegium/blob/main/PROCESS.md)

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