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Night conservatory. A garden that grows while you read.
About the work
A night conservatory where every plant is an L-system grown live on canvas. Species are seeded deterministically, sown as they scroll into view, and no two visits flower identically — but each plant is always itself.
How it was made
The grammars were tuned like bonsai — one rule change makes a fern a bramble. Iteration balanced growth speed against reading pace, and the reduced-motion path grows every garden instantly to its final form instead of animating.
Like every work in the exhibition, it passed three full iteration passes — a visual critique, a deepening pass, and a QA pass at 390px with reduced motion and zero console errors — and documents itself in its own build guide.
Key features
- L-system grammars expanded and drawn by a turtle renderer
- Deterministic seeds: each species is stable, each bloom unique
- IntersectionObserver sowing as beds scroll into view
- Night palette with bioluminescent accent flowers
Technology
- L-systems
- Canvas 2D
- Seeded PRNG
- IntersectionObserver
In its own light
