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Was always fascinated by SVG art. How good are LLMs in generating SVGs?
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…
You can also extract different parts of an existing svg and use (clone) them elsewhere on the page. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Reference/E...
That file was able to lock up or crash most SVG renderers back then.
Was always fascinated by SVG art. How good are LLMs in generating SVGs?
Was always fascinated by SVG art. How good are LLMs in generating SVGs?
I was feeling great but now I think "I have a lot to learn — I'd better get going!"
If you are interested in SVG animation, I wrote a program to do it from within Adobe Illustrator — see examples and how it works at https://svija.com/en/animation
Is there any SVG extension which allows density of line? I have a plotter which can lift/lower a pen; it's driven from SVG files. It'd be sweet to allow the pen to lower while the line is being drawn (as we often do with handwriting). Oh - it's an Axidraw, from Evil Mad Scientist Labs - great device, wonderful people.
I've been doing that sort of thing in:
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.
- adding toolpath information so as to use Flash as the engine for a Computer Aided Manufacturing tool: https://github.com/Jack000/PartKAM
- (this was my project along w/ Edward R. Ford) adding hyperlinks to part lists to highlight parts in an assembly diagram: https://github.com/shapeoko/Docs --- unfortunately, that doesn't seem to work anymore.
