SVG Path Editor

Posted by gurjeet 7 days ago

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Comment by AmbroseBierce 1 day ago

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.

Comment by a13o 1 day ago

If you search for ‘vectorization AI’ there are a handful of specialized tools and apis that can do it. It worked well for a handful of logos I wanted to convert. Nano banana generated the raster logos, and these other tools vectorized them

Comment by darknoon 1 day ago

I haven't seen one that worked properly—can you list a couple examples? Some of the ones that say they're "AI" are just VTracer / Potrace and don't give nice control points.

Comment by a13o 1 day ago

I liked the results of vectorizer.ai and recraft.ai

Input image is important too. When working with the generalist LLM on the raster art, give it context that you are making a logo, direct it to use strokes and fills and minimal color palette, readable at small sizes, etc.

Comment by ChadNauseam 1 day ago

vectorizer.ai is amazing. It's worked great for like over 10 years (back when it had a name like vector magic or something). I'm super curious how it's implemented

Comment by animal_spirits 1 day ago

Even inkscape can do this

Comment by lukan 1 day ago

But only gives useful results some of the time. But I don't know if "vectorization AI" is already better.

Comment by dagss 1 day ago

Others have mentioned SVG AI tools... I've tried 3-4 over the previous days and eventually ended up with svgai.org (after I've used Google Gemini for bitmap).

You can instruct it to make edits, or say "Use SVG gradients for the windows" and so on and you can further iterate on the SVG.

It can be frustrating at times, but the end result was worth it for me.

Though for some images I've done 2-3 roundtrips manual editing, Nano Banana, svgai.org ...

The advantage is that it produces sane output paths that I can edit easily for final manual touches in Inkscape.

Some of the other "AI" tools are often just simply algorithms for bitmap->vector and the paths/curves they produce are harder to work with, and also give a specific feel to the vector art..

Comment by athrowaway3z 13 hours ago

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.

Comment by dgb23 1 day ago

It seems like the problem of pushing pixels around in an exact way and iterating on visual design is a problem that needs very specialized tools, regardless whether there is LLM support.

Comment by bigcloud1299 17 hours ago

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.

Comment by LuckyBuddy 1 day ago

Yes, these AI tools are good at drawing JPGs or PNGs, but not so good at generating SVGs. I searched for several image-to-SVG tools, and the best one was this Adobe tool: https://www.adobe.com/express/feature/image/convert/svg. After converting to SVG, I used Figma to fine-tune it.

Comment by exclipy 1 day ago

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

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Comment by j45 1 day ago

SVG is often relatively complex and dense.

A dedicated or fine tuned model for just SVGs would be pretty wild.

Comment by Tagbert 20 hours ago

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.

Comment by __jonas 1 day ago

I use this often when I need to work with individual path commands, it’s a great tool!

Comment by usrusr 1 day ago

Same! My use case is 2d splines for use in openSCAD, stuff that eventually arrives at my doorstep from a 3d printing service. I just love the ability to overlay reference bitmaps, super valuable for the parts I've been making.

Before stumbling upon this tool, I've spent a lot of time tweaking SVP paths in "mostly manual" files in other projects, it's a recurring theme for me. I was delegating the more interesting paths to Inkscape or similar, but keeping the basic structure handwritten. This tool would have made my life so much easier!

Comment by sandos 1 day ago

I keep trying to generate SVG using LLMS when I feel mermaidjs does not work. There has to be a better option here? I just want slightly more control than mermaidjs sometimes, but it seems its the de-facto default we are stuck with.

Comment by rankdiff 1 day ago

For this looking to vectorize raster image: Corel Draw is a good tool I used to use.

albeit, it is heavy tool that comes with lots of feats.

Comment by timonoko 23 hours ago

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

Comment by tuzemec 1 day ago

Nice! I like how it highlights the commands when you hover over them, allowing you to see what they actually do.

Comment by nilslindemann 1 day ago

Useful! I like that it does not produce crude floating point numbers, but keeps the clean integers.

Comment by imcritic 1 day ago

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

Comment by cxr 1 day ago

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.

Comment by imcritic 1 day ago

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

Comment by Brian_K_White 1 day ago

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.

Comment by eXpl0it3r 1 day ago

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.

Comment by catapart 1 day ago

What is the problem with this app's performance?

Comment by Brian_K_White 1 day ago

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.

Comment by pcthrowaway 1 day ago

> Give me some local tool that does disappear when the maintainer moves to the next thing.

This is open source, so whether or not it's a web app should make no difference here

Comment by imcritic 1 day ago

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

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Comment by kmoser 1 day ago

I wonder how easy it would be to add a "Save as NAPLPS" option.

Comment by doanbactam 1 day ago

Does it support converting between line segments and bezier curves smoothly?

Comment by pcthrowaway 1 day ago

Yes

Comment by djfobbz 1 day ago

We need a way to define precision of the grid.

Comment by kmoser 1 day ago

What do you mean? You can change the interval for the tick mark labels.

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Comment by croisillon 1 day ago

cool stuff, the favicon could even replicate the current svg state

Comment by gurjeet 1 day ago

I tried it in Firefox and Chrome, but changing the SVG shape did not change the favicon displayed on the tab. I don't think I understand what you meant.

PS: This submission of mine is at least a day old, but it now shows as posted about 3 hours ago; I presume this is because it is from the second-chance pool.

Comment by AmbroseBierce 1 day ago

I think they meant it as a feature suggestion (given that it should be easy to implement since SVG files can be used as favicons).