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PlantSudio, 1997. Garden simulation with variant evolution programming

Plants are seeded randomly based on environment or manually using Plant Wizard

Amusement, wonder, and uncertainty. Community funded aka revenue positive ✴︎ libred.org

Never used it myself but I remember seeing graphics generated with this program long time ago. User could even create their own 3D leaves and render 3D projections

Reminds me of how you can generate fractal botanical structures with just a few lines of code (e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnsley_fern)

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This is fantastic. Having this on print with a source code on the other side would be such a nerdy gift

I love seeing these old interfaces. So cool!

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