FlowerPath Companion Planner

FlowerPath Companion Planner - a garden planning system.

Description

Our product is for flower gardeners who are frustrated with bald patches in their carefully planned gardens and plants that fail to thrive. The FlowerPath Companion Planner is a software tool that, when provided with the dimensions and sun exposure of a garden plot, accurately creates a timeline of how the garden will look throughout the entire growing season.

Installation

1. Clone repository onto local device

2. After locating the main project directory, install requirements via pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Run main program via python main.py

Alternatively, program can be run through executable if an executable is provided

Directions to Create Own Executable File

1. Create .spec file: # .Spec Generation file: pyinstaller --onefile --windowed --icon="images/flower_icon.ico" --add-data "images;images" --add-data "placeholders_assets;placeholder_assets" --name FlowerPath main.py

2. Regenerate .exe: pyinstaller FlowerPath.spec

3. Provide images and placeholder images asset folders

Features

• Users can create a model of their garden by specifiying garden size, sunlight exposure, and soil drainage
• Collision feature shows users full size of plants during seed sowing stage
• Timeline feature allows users to dynamically observe how their garden will look over an entire growing season, helping them identify bald patches and times of low growth

Credits

Planned and developed by:

• Amber Martino
• Brandon Jennings
• Eva Powlison
• Katherine Whitmoyer