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Primitive – recreate your photos with vector-based geometric primitives

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Post by ngzhian » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 5:37 PM UTC

Primitive – recreate your photos with vector-based geometric primitives
primitive.lol

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 7:56 PM UTC

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Post by nzjrs » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 8:07 PM UTC

I'm struggling to find again a c++ implementation of this I saw on github a while back. Does HN the hive mind remember?

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Post by zchrykng » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 8:10 PM UTC

nzjrs wrote: post #3

I'm struggling to find again a c++ implementation of this I saw on github a while back. Does HN the hive mind remember?

Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated. (sorry couldn't resist, and don't know where the c++ implementation is)

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Post by fogleman » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 8:18 PM UTC

nzjrs wrote: post #3

I'm struggling to find again a c++ implementation of this I saw on github a while back. Does HN the hive mind remember?

The core of Primitive is open source, written in Go.

https://github.com/fogleman/primitive

Only the UI is closed source. It's written in Objective-C and basically shells out to the Go code.

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Post by gameguy43 » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 8:35 PM UTC

This sort of thing is useful for showing placeholder images while high-res images load: https://jmperezperez.com/svg-placeholders/

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Post by pRusya » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 9:06 PM UTC

nzjrs wrote: post #3

I'm struggling to find again a c++ implementation of this I saw on github a while back. Does HN the hive mind remember?

And here is the original post by the author https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12539109

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Post by minimaxir » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 9:27 PM UTC

An unexpected benefit of Primitive is that it helps create really cool animations (both by screen-recording the Primitive app as it renders the shapes for the image, and by working with SVG animation libraries on the web).

I played around with it a couple years ago (https://minimaxir.com/2016/12/primitive/) and it worked out surprisingly well.

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Post by jnurmine » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 9:59 PM UTC

Roger Alsing (Johansson) did this in 2008:

https://rogerjohansson.blog/2008/12/07/genetic-programming-e...

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Post by fogleman » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 10:17 PM UTC

jnurmine wrote: post #9

Roger Alsing (Johansson) did this in 2008: https://rogerjohansson.blog/2008/12/07/genetic-programming-e...

Indeed. I mentioned that in the README: https://github.com/fogleman/primitive#inspiration