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rupl / bustashape

Collaborative, real-time artboards
https://bustashape.art
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Reproducing images with geometric primitives. #101

Open afragon opened 7 years ago

afragon commented 7 years ago

Found this work that reproduces images with geometric primitives.

:link: https://github.com/fogleman/primitive :link: https://github.com/possan/polyserver

Is there a possibility to integrate this solution to bustashape as a feature?

rupl commented 7 years ago

wow, that's beautiful!

rupl commented 7 years ago

Eventually we could make this happen. But honestly I have some serious revamping of the codebase to do before it can be feasible. There are several subtle things we'd need to achieve first, like allowing the creation of non-regular polys (this thing can generate any shape it wants, e.g. a triangle with sides that are of any length, not just equilateral like our current triangle)

It also requires Go on the server, and right now we have a delightfully simple node stack. Perhaps we could spin this up as a companion service instead of intertwining it with bustashape itself. Bustashape can hit the Primitive API and then spit out all the shapes to the user.

This thing works wonderfully though!

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rupl commented 7 years ago

Yeah i looked at the output options and the data we'd need is kinda buried, but I'm sure we could surface it especially with a little guidance from the maintainer if needed.

rupl commented 6 years ago

Nice, someone wrote the API we needed! https://github.com/possan/polyserver

It will take an image, turn it into primitives, and output the coordinates. They have a step 4 called "write your own renderer" — the part that bustashape can fulfill.