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Hey, thanks for reaching out! LineDream looks really nice! It has some similarities with my other project vsketch, which is also inspired from Processing but sticks to the stateful API. My first thought, if you haven't done so, would be to ensure that the pen-plotter community is aware of your project. I recommend joining the DrawingBots's Discord server. Also, #plottertwitter on the bird site, and #penplotter on the elephant site.
As such, it can be used to display a SVG via command line: As a side-note, vpype includes my first iteration of a viewer implemented in Python, based on OpenGL (via ModernGL) and wrapped in a PySide UI. You can give it a try with: What are your thoughts on the above? Can you tell me more on your needs? |
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Hi! Ok, so you raise quite a few points worth addressing. Let me layout what my end goals are
With all that said, I love how you created vsketch as an entire environment. So, maybe my original question should be - is it possible to plumb LineDream into vsketch as an alternative 'language'? It seems like you have most of the things in there I would like :-) However, the only big missing feature, from my perspective, is not supporting fills and stroke color for paths. I totally understand why that may feel outside of the scope of plotters, but you can use plotters to do fills if you get creative. Additionally, it allows you to visualize mixed media (for instance, a piece of art that has a plotter outline with watercolor infill). Thanks for responding! I'm excited to here what you think. |
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Yes probably. As a matter of fact, you could readily use LineDream within a vsketch sketch, and export SVG +
Fair enough. vsketch (or more precisely, it's That being said, it's a bit hard to make concrete suggestions, as much would depend on your aspirations (going native with Rust?) and the available time to invest. The first thing I'd try to make clear is the debate vs. viewer features (in terms of how much of the SVG spec is supported) vs. performance/scale independance. It would be rather easy to cobble together a native SVG viewer package for python using a PyO3 + egui + resvg stack. resvg being a CPU-based (I believe) rasteriser, this will put a limit on performance and scale independence. On the other hand, if you can live with a minimal feature set (basically uniform stroke and fills, maybe a bit more if you fancy playing with shaders), it's relatively easy to go the GPU accelerated way, which gives you perf and scale independence (zoom in/out, pan, etc.). If you think of going for the later approach, then both of As it turn out, I actually would very much like to build a Rust-native Python package to power a "vsketch2" IDE. It would be made of data structures (doc -> layers -> paths), operations on them (crop, SVG import/export, optimisation, etc.), the viewer itself, and a property-based "auto-UI" like vsketch (user parameters shows up as widget on the GUI). The stack would be as the current vsvg: egui + wgpu. It would then be easy to slap any drawing API on top of that (that API would basically fill the data structure with what needs to be displayed). Unfortunately, I don't have enough time for this at the moment. |
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Thanks Antoine, this is super helpful. I think I need to do a bit of soul searching for the project to determine where my energy is best spent. Thank you for the information! |
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Also, I think you're right that vpype-viewer might best pave the way. I feel as though that encompasses the majority of the functionality I'm looking for (minus no fills). When I get some spare time I'll have to see what type of data models it expects and how difficult it would be to make mine match yours. |
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Let me know how it goes, happy to assist if needed! |
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Hello! I maintain a generate art library for python called LineDream. I've implemented a simpler 'viewer' that rasters the output SVG into a PNG via Cairo, and opens it via Pillow. I'm wondering if this package is a better option. Can vsvg be used as a library and take in an SVG string in memory for viewing?
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