Finalized Spects.

Features: Mother Flower
1. Telling of weather beforehand.
· Flower gives a pleasant beep to get the user's attention for impeding rain.
· Petals will close up(but not fully so as to retain sight of bud info).
· User has enough time to prepare his/herself for the rain.

2. Telling of seasonal changes.
· Stalk of flower will gradually change, inclusive of petals.
· Once everything changes to its most solid colour form, it means the season is in full bloom.
· Icon will be shown on bud.

3. Display of temperature.
· Shown on bud.
· Flower will "wither"(there will be a limit) if weather is too high.

4. Time & date.

Features: Portable
1. Displays temperature.

2. Time & date.

3. Predicts weather change.
· Possesses the same beep call, but will only display rain icon to show impeding rain.

4. Seasons.
· Once plugged from the Mother, portable petal loses its seasonal colour.
· Season icon remains shown on the petal LCD.

Kinds of flowers

following the research on sunflowers and daisies,

these are the typical daisies
the properties of daisies aren't much, except Herbalists use it to treat kidney problems, rheumatism, arthritis, bronchitis and diarrhoea. natural insecticide












































References:Link

Flower Behavior.

Flower power

There are a number of flowers that you should look for if you want to know what the weather will be like. One of these is the Scarlet Pimpernel, which has been called the "poor man’s weather glass". This is because its flowers open in sunny weather, but close tightly when rain is expected.

The petals of the Morning Glory act in a similar way – with wide open blooms indicating fine weather and shut petals predicting rain and bad weather. This opening and closing also occurs with the South African magic carpet flower.



Reference from: http://www.rcn27.dial.pipex.com/cloudsrus/lore.html

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Flower folded itself and bundled to protect itself from the cold weather.

Will add on if there are more.

Potential data visualization.

From the data exercises we've done in previous exercises, I began pondering on how we are able to simplify data that will be shown on the petal or flower should the need arise. And this simplification should aim to be both unique yet simple to read.

So I dug up this chart over the net. This shows some of the various ways we can show data:

source: www.eyezberg.com

Final visualization is subjected to change.

Side tibits.

Here are some links I stumbled upon while digging up information about flowers and their behavior towards weather changes.

This quote intrigued me the most:

Nothing predicts the weather better then nature herself.

Source: http://www.humanflowerproject.com/index.php/weblog/comments/flowers_as_weather_casters/

Some thing I found that might help shape the end product... Although we aim to simplify our end product to make it more user-friendly and easily understandable.

Source:
http://www.earthtechproducts.com/p300.html

That's all for today's tibits. Still unable to find information of flowers towards fluctuations of weather(s). If anyone has any clues/hints as to where I can find some, please post! Thanks. :)

The right track.

For teachers/group mentors who are monitoring our assignment, the prior research posts are just research!

There is no intention of modeling the end product in resemblance to any existing flower and/or take on any traits of any existing flower in full.

What we aim to do, however, is to make a basic stereotype of a flower. And with it, take on some traits of different flowers that links up to our goal, which is in this case, to note down weather. It is more of a 3 in 1 thing. :)

One that caught our attention is the sunflower.

Flowers flowers flowers

Research on the appearances of flowers, these below are candidates from where our flower's outlook idea come from. We took note that since we need petals to be detachable, its best to select flowers which are not too complicated, in short, the sun flower and daisy


Flowering Plants:-

1. Asteraceae or Compositae (daisy family)[Link:Asteraceae]
There are in total 23,600 species

2. Orchidaceae (orchid family)[Link:Orchidaceae]
There are in total 21,950 species.

3. Fabaceae or Leguminosae (pea family)[Link:Fabaceae]
There are in total 19,400 species.

4. Rubiaceae (madder family)[Link:Rubiaceae]
There are in total 13,183 species.

5. Poaceae or Gramineae (grass family)[Link:Poaceae]
There are in total 10,035 species.

6. Lamiaceae or Labiatae (mint family)[Link:Lamiaceae ]
There are in total 7,173 species.

7. Euphorbiaceae (spurge family)[Link:Euphorbiaceae]
There are in total 5,735 species.

8. Cyperaceae (sedge family)[Link:Cyperaceae]
There are in total 4,350 species.

9. Malvaceae (mallow family)[Link:Malvaceae]
There are in total 4,225 species.

10. Araceae (aroid family)[Link:Araceae]
There are in total 4,025 species.
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Asteraceae, daisies.

Info: The family Asteraceae or Compositae, known as the aster, daisy or sunflower family, is the second largest family family of flowering plants(refer to top) after Orchidaceae , in terms of number of species.

This includes several species and classifications.
Chrysanthemums are a genus (Chrysanthemum) of about 30 species of perennial flowering plants in the family Asteraceae , native to Asia. It was named from the Greek prefix chrys-, which means golden (the colour of the original flowers), and -anthemon, meaning flower.

Calendula (pot marigold) is a genus of about 12-20 species of annual or perennial herbaceous plants in the daisy family Asteraceae. It is also the flower of the month October.

Common Daisy, Lawn Daisy or occasionally English daisy. It is native to western, central and northern Europe. The species is widely naturalized in North America, where it is considered an invasive weed.