Clitoris Vulgaris

A Twitter bot that produces new species of clitoris by projecting botanical illustrations onto a 3D model. The image is rendered with Blender and automated with a Python script using the Blender API.

Twitter bot

Every day the bot will publish an image with a name. The name is randomly generated with Latin adjectives usually used for plants. The dataset was taken from a USDA plant list.

The textures were taken from two sources: Bristish Library’s Flickr collection of historic illustrations and Wikimedia’s USDA Pomological Watercolors.

How to render an image

Build the Docker image

cd clistoscope
docker build -t fhoehl/clitorisvulgaris .

The container has one volume called /data where there should be a textures folder.

Start a render

docker run --rm -v $DATA_FOLDER:/data/ fhoehl/clitorisvulgaris scene.blend --python scene.py -o /render/image -f 1

Thanks

Initial 3d model and inspiration

How to find a dominant color palette in an image with k-means

Blender

List of plants and their latin name

Flora from Mechanical Curator Collection

USDA Pomological Watercolors

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MIT license