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Arts & Communication Design application of foliage plants

bamboo leaves and rice wrapped in lotus leaves when the bamboo on the shadow walls and flower walls of Chinese
leaf surface is not sticky, scientists have selected several gardens to communicate the ideal aspirations of the literati
representative leaves for experiments and discovered the and to depict the noble character of the gentleman.
non-smooth structure and hydrophobicity of the leaf Independent designer Tan Zhipeng specializes in the
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surface. Inspired by this, people have used nanomaterials use of the traditional casting process, “lost wax casting,” to
to design a kind of hydrophobic paint that gives buildings design and produce a variety of avant-garde contemporary
the ability to self-clean. As depicted in Figure 6, Leaf furniture. As exhibited in Figure 7, he has been inspired
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Republic, a company from Germany, utilizes the natural by the law of plant growth and the cellular structure of
degradation characteristics of leaves to design tableware leaves and used the organic form of natural plants to create
made only of leaves. It is made from wild vines in Asia the “Bio-muscle” series of furniture, which simulates the
and South America without any chemical additives, oils, imagery of the plant growth process and combines the
or glues and can be naturally degraded 28 days after use, themes of plants and human beings.
turning into nutrients for other plants.
4.5. Original design: bionic design based on an
4.4. Imagery bionics integrated perspective
Imagery bionics of foliage plants refers to the indirect As technology evolves, through the integration of
transmission of cultural and emotional information disciplines, foliage plant bionic design can empower
through the subjective treatment of plant morphological products in more diverse forms. An HTML (hypertext
features or attributes under the premise of fitting the markup language)-based art pattern processing program
connotation of plants to make people physiologically and has been developed through the principles of computer
psychologically realize the interaction and resonance with graphics as a derivative of foliage plant bionics. As
the imagery form. This type of biomimicry involves the presented in Figure 8, the principle is to use a geometric
subjective processing of the biomimetic thing’s spiritual template to capture a part of the image in the illustration
core, including its cultural and social features, rather than of foliage plants and then use symmetry, repetition, and
only the embodiment of the look of the biomimetic object.
other planar composition processing techniques on this
In the field of architectural decoration, plant image piece of image to generate dynamically variable abstract art
symbols comprehensively contain nature worship, totem patterns that can be applied to the development of cultural
worship, clan worship, and social cognition. Different and creative products.
plant ornamental patterns utilized at various architectural
levels express multiple political and ideological ideas as 5. Discussion
well as distinct class perspectives. They can also reflect the The common foliage plants found in traditional Chinese
national religion, art, esthetics, and other spiritual aspects gardens serve as the focus of this study, which is conducted
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of public consciousness. It is typical to observe foliage in the context of the present need to broaden the cognitive
plant topics such as lotus, Chinese parasols, pines, and capacity of inventive thinking in product design. The
research first analyzes the significance of foliage plants
in Chinese history and culture before classifying and

Figure 6. Leaf Republic’s tableware. 81

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