#flower research

[helpyourselfwithcherrywine]

So yesterday I was using a disconnected device with word and it deleted some documents and one was research I had done on colonial flowers. When I connected the device to the internet it made some of the documents disappeared and one of it was the flower document. I am still mad but does anyone know how to recover it somehow?

[animal-data]

For funsies, let's regroup these by similar values.

white pansies: 01 (0000 0001) white cosmos: 01 white tulips: 01 white violets- 01 white lilies- 03 (0000 0011) white roses: 04 (0000 0100)

yellow cosmos: 0d (0000 1101) yellow pansies: 0c (0000 1100) yellow tulips: 0c yellow lilies- 0c purple violets- 0c

yellow violets- 10 (0001 0000)

yellow roses: 30 (0011 0000) red pansies: 30 red cosmos: 30 red tulips: 31 (0011 0001) red lilies- 31

red roses: c1 (1100 0001)

So what we find is: - No species has two (standard) colors with similar values. - Most flowers have only one or two flags set, with a couple of the few exceptions having only one or two per "digit" (nybble? whatever it's called). The only complete exception to this rule is yellow cosmos, which still only have one digit with flags set. - White flowers are the most homogenous group, with all having low values; lilies are the only ones with more than one flag set - Purple violets have a value more similar to most yellow flowers, while yellow violets have a unique value. You'd think it'd be the other way 'round. -- This might have something to do with the fact that yellow violets have no hybridization potential. - Yellow roses have a value more similar to most other red flowers, and red roses have an entirely unique value. Since the value for white roses is slightly different than most other white flowers, this makes roses the most "unique" family; this is possibly related to roses having the largest number of hybrids possible (I think?)

I'd love to do an overall look at the family trees of each flower species, but given that most of the guides are... confused at best, it'd be hard to get into details.

- In most species, redxred produces black, and also pink in roses, which can also be achieved with redxwhite -- Exception: carnations, which obviously don't have a black version; instead redxred apparently produces pink? - Yellow x red produces orange in all species that have both parent colors. This is probably the most consistent rule. - White x red is the next most consistent, producing pink in all species that have all three colors (pansies having the parent colors but not pink). Pink roses can also come from red x red. - In two species, whitexwhite produces a hybrid- blue in pansies and purple in roses. Ironically the reverse (blue roses and purple pansies) are the two most elusive hybrid colors. - Wilted black x golden watering can produces gold in roses; gold x gold roses produce yellow. - In violets, white x purple (which has yellow-like flags) produces a blue hybrid; in no other species does white x yellow produce anything. -- Violets (and carnations?) are the only species where no two flowers of the same color can produce a second color.

So there's definitely some consistent rules underlying the flower hybrid system, and I suspect the flags mechanic is meant to facilitate this- take the flags of the two flowers doing the breeding, do some arcane math on them, and then compare the result to a lookup table for the flower's species. That way the function could be simplified, as the species doesn't have to be considered while calculating the outcome.

[animal-data]

roses

- c1 red roses, 04 white roses, 01 white pansies and 30 red pansies all produce more of themselves with the same values... - c1 red roses produce also produce c0 black roses and c3 pink roses

Considering those the "default" values for their respective hybrids, let's compare the flags-

1100 0001 (red) 1100 0011 (r/r pink) 1100 0000 (black)

Basically, only one changed- one on for pink and one off for black. Meanwhile, pink roses from red + white parents have different flags (41). So:

1100 0001 (red) 0000 0100 (white) 0100 0001 (r/w pink)

Like some of the other two-parent hybrids it has two flags both from its parents, but in this case both flags are from the same parent (red). Or you could think of it as red with one flag off, in a different pattern from r/r pink or black.

White + white roses = purple roses also just adds a flag:

04 (0000 0100) 0c (0000 1100)

[animal-data]

So something odd happened while I was breeding for red + yellow = orange roses... The game spawned a yellow rose with unusual flags.

Red + yellow roses = yellow roses with 51 flag... ??? I thought one of my villagers must've planted it, but apparently not- the other times I've caught villagers planting, their flowers had normal flags. And this was set up with only one yellow rose, so it's not a yellowxyellow.

c1 1100 0001 30 0011 0000 51 0101 0001

I suppose it follows the pattern of only having flags set that its parents did. The actual orange roses are 50 (0101 0000).

[animal-data]

pansies

01 (0000 0001) white x self = 03 (0000 0011) blue

30 (0011 0000) red x 0c (0000 1100) yellow = 14 (0001 0100) orange

Breeding red (30) x white (01) pansies just to see what happened netted me red 11 (0001 0001), and then something (not whitexwhite, since there was only one white involved) got me 03 blue pansies. What?

[animal-data]

- flower seed bags have no flags, in pockets or on ground. Planting said bags produces the usual flags. -- Note there's unused bags for the hybrid flowers that apparently work normally... will check those out when I start save editing. - Can't find the data on what the player's wearing to check hair/face flower flags.

So across two towns, I've confirmed flowers have the same default flag values across all the following: - new village, randomly spawning in the open in a village - islands and islands tours (inc. butterfly tour for lillies/violets) - flower seeds from Leif's/lost and found - being planted by a villager

And here's the list:

white violets- 01 (0000 0001) yellow violets- 10 (0001 0000) purple violets- 0c (0000 1100)

red lilies- 31 yellow lilies- 0c white lilies- 03

yellow pansies: 0c (0000 1100) yellow cosmos: 0d (0000 1101) yellow tulips: 0c (0000 1100) yellow roses: 30 (0011 0000)

white pansies: 01 (0000 0001) white cosmos: 01 white tulips: 01 white roses: 04 (0000 0100)

red pansies: 30 (0011 0000) red cosmos: 30 (0011 0000) red tulips: 31 (0011 0001) red roses: c1 (1100 0001)

Incidentally, the blue violets in my town are (all?) 05 (0000 0101). Looking around, I can also find some purple violets with flags of 14 (0001 0100) and 04 (0000 0100). These are both only one flag off from the "default" value; both have the fours place flag set in the second digit, and the hybrid blue violets have the fours place flag from the purples and the ones place flag from the whites.

[thelondonflowerlover]

Beloved Flower Lover,

Experiment for a five minutes, an hour, a day, a week, a month, or longer, matching your energy to the beauty of a flower you adore, love, regard as a symbol of peace.

Then notice what happens

The team,

The London Flower Lover

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Match your energy to the beauty of a flower you love. Then notice what you notice about your day Beloved Flower Lover, Experiment for a five minutes, an hour, a day, a week, a month, or longer, matching your energy to the beauty of a flower you adore, love, regard as a symbol of peace. Then notice what happens The team, The London Flower Lover