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GraphiteEditor
Graphite
Rust2022–2025
GraphiteEditor / Graphite

Graphite

Community-built comprehensive 2D content creation appplication for graphic design, digital art, and interactive real-time motion graphics powered by a node-based procedural graphics engine

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1Explicit recommenders
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What it is

Community-built comprehensive 2D content creation appplication for graphic design, digital art, and interactive real-time motion graphics powered by a node-based procedural graphics engine

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I love Inkscape so much. I use it every other week to make presentations, slides or just simple graphics when I need it. I illustrated my thesis with it. Another piece of 2D…

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 11:56:56 AM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2022-12-19 15:20:34 UTC to 2025-08-13 21:58:23 UTC.

0123452022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2025

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My apologies, it looks like it was switched over [0] to an external root-finder crate poly-cool [1] soon after I wrote my comment. (I should know better than to link to branches directly, but there weren't any useful tags on the repo, so I got lazy. For reference, I was trying to link to [2].) Curiously, the poly-cool crate appears to use the monomial basis instead of the Bernstein basis that the old version was using. [0] https://github.com/GraphiteEditor/Graphite/pull/3031 [1] https://crates.io/crates/poly-cool [2] https://github.com/GraphiteEditor/Graphite/blob/beb1c6ae6489...
In Bezier-rs – algorithms for Bézier segments and shapes
Jerry2·Oct 18, 2024Recommendation phrase
I love Inkscape so much. I use it every other week to make presentations, slides or just simple graphics when I need it. I illustrated my thesis with it. Another piece of 2D vector software that I use and recommend is Graphite [1]. It too is open source. Graphite has nodes and can be procedural in nature. Have them both in your graphics toolbox. [1] https://github.com/GraphiteEditor/Graphite
In Inkscape 1.4
Oh cool! I've had a very unfinished unpublished SVG editor from a couple years ago with blender-ish controls that I started cleaning up a couple days ago; guess I don't need to anymore. Here are some things in mine that I've found useful but don't see here (/ might have missed) and could be food for thought (presumably some of these are just NYI but noting them regardless): [edit: a couple of these things are already noted at https://github.com/GraphiteEditor/Graphite/issues/1870] - shift+G/R/S for setting handle mode (bent, colinear, and colinear+equidistant respectively) works out quite intuitively; mode can be displayed as a different icon on the point (square for bent, rectangle aligned to angle for colinear, and circle for equidistant is what I use; circle is somewhat questionable but my handles have arrow tips) - while holding just
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a handle, set the rotation/scale anchor point to its point - allow both rotate and scale at the same time (maybe never useful but I still did it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) - while rotating/scaling, some shortcut for setting the anchor point (esp. snapped to an element representing the rotational center of a symmetric design) - middle-mouse-dragging while holding an element should ignore the delta mouse movement during the movement - I draw visual indicators of the current r/g/s accumulated action (g: a line from the starting mouse position in the canvas to where it'd be dragged to; s: line from the anchor point through the current and original mouse position with different colors (i.e. the ratio of the color lengths is the ratio of scaling); r: lines from the anchor to original & current mouse position, with an arc in between (very busy-looking, don't quite like it)) - some actions - cut a path into two (a thing I don't have but have wanted is drag-selecting to cut into three), snapping to existing points if near enough; and another to join paths if two end-points are selected; and select all linked to current selection
In Show HN: Graphite, a Blender-inspired 2D procedural design Rust app

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