Fractal Branching

Fractal branching is a pattern that is characterized by the repetition of a detailed shape at increasingly smaller scales, creating a complex overall structure. This phenomenon is found in a variety of natural structures, including tree branches and snowflakes.

This is the process of creating a complex shape by repeating a simple prototype at smaller scales. This can be demonstrated using the example of a tree branch. A single branch splits into smaller branches, which then split into even smaller branches. This process creates a tree with many branches that can be seen as an assembly of smaller, similar-looking trees.

– https://www.cantorsparadise.com/how-to-find-numbers-in-nature-6c0e1b21cd21

Is everything in the universe made of 0s and 1s?

Yes in a sense. Atoms are just a biological, more complex version of 1s and 0s. The world consists of 0 and 1, as well code is binary. We look into the binary/mathematical things in flowers as the fibonacci sequence or the flower of life and create a collection of different digitized flower art created by code and computers.

Infinite Herbarium

What is it?

Infinite Herbarium is an exploration of art, nature and technology. Infinite Herbarium aims to expand our experience of the diverse botanical world - creating connectivity to plants and their threatened ecosystems. Through a process of interactive learning and art production, participants' encounters with real world plants are filtered through data sets and historical archives using a combination of Machine Learning techniques. Connections across botany, data and art seed imaginative encounters with curious hybrid species - creating a digital reflection of the constant flux of living systems.

– https://infiniteherbarium.withgoogle.com/

How does it work?

Using similar technology to that which powers Google Lens, participants are invited to create a plant ‘morph’. Two plants are identified. The visual characteristics of those plants are fed into a ML model that has been trained to generate mutating plant images through exposure to scientific illustration data, made available in the open source

Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Who developed it?

Caroline Rothwell is a Sydney-based visual artist whose work tackles important conversations about human interactions with nature throughout history — and their lasting effects. In her latest body of work, she hopes to bring attention to the plants around us we so often take for granted. She wanted to see if technology could help her use botanical data from historical archives to educate people about the natural world. So with the help of Google Creative Lab Sydney, she began exploring how machine learning could interpret archives and datasets to create new art. Together, we built Infinite Herbarium, a web application as well as a participatory art installation, in which users can explore an infinite number of machine-learning-generated plants, creating their own artwork while learning more about the plants in their own backyard.

Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCStSJVe4oo https://experiments.withgoogle.com/infinite-herbarium https://infiniteherbarium.withgoogle.com/ https://blog.google/around-the-globe/google-asia/infinite-herbarium/