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Re: SVG Path Editor

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Post by Brian_K_White »

imcritic wrote: post #37
cxr wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This isn't a web service. It's a browser-based tool that runs entirely on your device. It's published as a static site on GitHub Pages, and ("but"?) everything it's doing is all happening fully in-browser.

It is a web service. It is just a simple one that doesn't need to execute any stuff on backend/server.

That makes it a document not a service.

Save the file and run it at will, just like any other local app.

The app runs in an interpreter which is a browser instead of python and a load of libraries, which is no distinction at all.

Re: SVG Path Editor

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Post by Brian_K_White »

eXpl0it3r wrote: post #12
imcritic wrote: post #10

Very cool! I wish more editors would exist as web services, easily solving the cross-platformity that way.

I'm in the opposite camp. Give me some local tool that does disappear when the maintainer moves to the next thing. Well and I can eat the cake as well, make it some native app that has proper performance.

It is a local tool. You have what you say you want already.

It just uses a browser as the interpreter environment and super effortless one-click instantaneous install process.

Re: SVG Path Editor

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Post by [deleted] »

imcritic wrote: post #36
eXpl0it3r wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in the opposite camp. Give me some local tool that does disappear when the maintainer moves to the next thing. Well and I can eat the cake as well, make it some native app that has proper performance.

But it is local, it's just a web service.

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Re: SVG Path Editor

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Post by timonoko »

Gemini-cli made very good laser cutter methinks. Inkscape drove me nuts. From shape to GCODE directly. SVG considered superfluous.

  https://github.com/timonoko/laser-cutting-contours

Re: SVG Path Editor

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Post by Tagbert »

j45 wrote: post #40
AmbroseBierce wrote: post #8

I have tried to use ChatGPT and Google's Gemini to make SVG from simple logos bitmaps but its still a daunting task for them, so I guess tools like this one will still be needed for a while.

SVG is often relatively complex and dense. A dedicated or fine tuned model for just SVGs would be pretty wild.

The problem isn't really SVG but the more complex problem of looking at a, possibly noisy, image with continuous color variations and identifying the cutoff point where you contain one part in a border and a different part in another border. That can be judgement call that is made better if you actually understand what is represented but harder if you are working at the pixel level.

Re: SVG Path Editor

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Post by bigcloud1299 »

AmbroseBierce wrote: post #8

I have tried to use ChatGPT and Google's Gemini to make SVG from simple logos bitmaps but its still a daunting task for them, so I guess tools like this one will still be needed for a while.

Try Claude code. I have built so many. Entire pitch decks for my startup. It is the best. Tell it to use animation libraries gsap framer motion etc to build svg.

Re: SVG Path Editor

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Post by athrowaway3z »

AmbroseBierce wrote: post #8

I have tried to use ChatGPT and Google's Gemini to make SVG from simple logos bitmaps but its still a daunting task for them, so I guess tools like this one will still be needed for a while.

You can get pretty decent initial results if you explicitly tell them to first make a detailed description with exact coordinates and then feed the description back into them to build the SVG.

Re: SVG Path Editor

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Post by imcritic »

Brian_K_White wrote: post #41
imcritic wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is a web service. It is just a simple one that doesn't need to execute any stuff on backend/server.

That makes it a document not a service. Save the file and run it at will, just like any other local app. The app runs in an interpreter which is a browser instead of python and a load of libraries, which is no distinction at all.

I think you are right.

Re: SVG Path Editor

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Post by exclipy »

exclipy wrote: post #13
AmbroseBierce wrote: post #8

I have tried to use ChatGPT and Google's Gemini to make SVG from simple logos bitmaps but its still a daunting task for them, so I guess tools like this one will still be needed for a while.

Free idea: turn this into an MCP server. Give the agent the ability to virtually "hover" a path and see which part of the final render it corresponds to

If anyone sees this, I tried it and unfortunately am not getting better results on the pelican-on-bicycle test. I think the vision models just aren't good enough yet (I tried Claude and Gemini)

I can share the code if there's interest.

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