[HN Gopher] Floral formula
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       Floral formula
        
       Author : theogravity
       Score  : 77 points
       Date   : 2024-09-08 08:49 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | nine_k wrote:
       | Basically, this is how you serialize flowers.
        
         | ravedave5 wrote:
         | This made me laugh then ponder. That's exactly it.
        
         | echelon wrote:
         | This looks a lot like SMILES [1], which is another
         | serialization scheme.
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         | [1]
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Molecular_Input_Lin...
        
           | dekhn wrote:
           | I was just going to post that you could probably make an
           | autoencoder over flowers and use it as an embedding to probe
           | genomic alterations that tweak the flower generator functions
        
         | astroalex wrote:
         | DNA is how you serialize flowers!
        
       | Y_Y wrote:
       | Is this what all the writing in the Voynich manuscript is then?
       | 
       | Reminds me of blazon, another image constructing DSL. I wonder if
       | anyone collects and categorizes such little languages.
        
       | graypegg wrote:
       | There's a little visualizer tool listed in the External Links
       | section!
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       | No clue what I'm doing but the flower diagrams it generates from
       | floral formula parameters are pretty
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       | https://kvetnidiagram.8u.cz/index_en.php
        
       | wduquette wrote:
       | I don't need to know anything about this, but I'm glad to know
       | that it exists and gets used. Very cool.
        
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