Nice things with SVG

Post by timewizard » Sat, Apr 12, 2025, 6:20 PM UTC

LegionMammal978 wrote: post #3

One fun thing that can be done with SVG files: you can use entities in an inline DTD to define constants to be shared across different places in the file. You can see some great examples of this in the SVGs in David Ellsworth's "Squares in Squares" page [0]. The major browsers have no issues with this, though note that some tools like Inkscape won't parse the DTD nor expand the entities. [0] https://kingbird.myphotos…

Post by hinkley » Sat, Apr 12, 2025, 6:24 PM UTC

mkoryak wrote: post #6

kmoser wrote: post #2

This taught me that SVGs can be animated with CSS. Cool! I wonder if anybody has recreated vector graphics games like Asteroids using SVGs and animation. You'd have to use JS to change the shape and direction of the asteroids when they're shot, but that would just require a bit of JS.

It would be more performant to use canvas, but it might be kind of fun to do with svg

Post by memhole » Sat, Apr 12, 2025, 6:33 PM UTC

rckt wrote: post #14

SVG feels like a very underexplored and underused territory. You can do so many things with it. It really depends on your imagination. But you’ll possibly need to “hardcore” a lot of stuff, so yeah, depends on the use case as well.

Post by jamesgpearce » Sat, Apr 12, 2025, 6:37 PM UTC

krebby wrote: post #7

chentastic wrote: post #4

Was always fascinated by SVG art. How good are LLMs in generating SVGs?

Getting better! https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/25/pelicans-on-a-bicycle/

Post by wwweston » Sat, Apr 12, 2025, 6:53 PM UTC

rckt wrote: post #14

SVG feels like a very underexplored and underused territory. You can do so many things with it. It really depends on your imagination. But you’ll possibly need to “hardcore” a lot of stuff, so yeah, depends on the use case as well.