TITLE: HERBARIUM — folio XII
PROMPT: Create 'HERBARIUM — folio XII', a botanist's pressed-plant archive: large album plates of pressed specimens (elegant line-art botanicals with flat color fills and pressed-paper shading), each with a specimen label in cursive ink (Latin binomial, collector, locus, date), herbarium tape strips holding stems, foxing spots on old paper, and a magnifier loupe. Palette: herbarium cream, pressed-plant olives and russets, ink sepia. Interactions: a filmstrip of specimen drawers opens plates with a page-turn; the loupe reveals vein detail and a hidden watermark; hovering a label translates the Latin (Common foxglove — Digitalis purpurea); a PRESS YOUR OWN mode lets you arrange cut stems and leaves into a composition and stamp it as a new specimen; subtle paper-grain and deckled edges throughout. Scientific, tender, antique.
DESCRIPTION: A linen-bound album spread under lamplight: foxed cream pages with deckled shadows, herbarium tape strips, and five pressed specimens rendered as SVG line-art botanicals — foxglove with pendant bells, bracken fronds, a faded poppy, whorled horsetail, sweet violet — each with roots, veins, and hand-inked labels (Latin binomial, cursive collector E. Voss, locus, 1890s dates). A filmstrip of drawers at the bottom opens each plate with a 3D page-turn; the brass loupe follows the cursor magnifying 2× (toggleable); PRESS YOUR OWN mode lets you stamp rotated specimen cuttings anywhere on the page to compose your own plate.
TECHNIQUES: procedural SVG botanical generator (stems, directional leaves with veins, five flower-head systems, root bundles), CSS 3D page-turn animation, foxing radial-gradient spots, cursor-following loupe with cloned scaled content, cursive label typography, press-mode click-to-stamp composition with random rotation.
INTERACTION: Click drawers to turn pages between specimens; move the cursor over the page to inspect with the loupe; toggle the loupe off; PRESS YOUR ON enables click-to-place specimen cuttings for your own composition.