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InvokeAI
Invoke is a leading creative engine for Stable Diffusion models, empowering professionals, artists, and enthusiasts to generate and create visual media using the latest AI-driven technologies. The solution offers an industry leading WebUI, and serves as the foundation for multiple commercial products.
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sdnext
SD.Next: All-in-one WebUI for AI generative image and video creation, captioning and processing
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Clippy
A bunch of lints to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust code. Book: https://doc.rust-lang.org/clippy/
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brackets
An open source code editor for the web, written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS. (by brackets-cont)
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VL.Fuse
A library for visually programming on the GPU, built to enable rapid workflows and modular approaches to accelerated graphics, logic and computation.
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Gimel-Studio
Discontinued Old repo of the node-based image editor. See https://github.com/GimelStudio/GimelStudio for the next generation of Gimel Studio :rocket:
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stegano-rs
A cross-platform command line tool for steganography focused on performance and simplicity written in rust-lang.
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Affinity Studio Now Free
I'm going to hold on my Affinity as long as I can and try to integrate as much of my workflow to Inkscape as possible (even if UI feels like CorelDraw). Also keeping eye on: https://graphite.rs/
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Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
I vaguely wondered if FreeHand would make an appearance in this thread. :)
Two features that come to mind as IIRC being unique (as compared to Illustrator) were multi-page documents and multiple page size multi-page documents. Ideal for the complete standard set of company branded print documents: business card, "With Compliments" slip, and letterhead. :D
Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia and subsequent killing of (the IMO superior) FreeHand contributed directly to my subsequent decision to avoid closed source application software--especially for creative tools--even if alternatives were "technically inferior".
(And, indeed, "creative tool killed/hampered for business reasons" is a story which has been repeated elsewhere multiple times in the quarter century[0] since.)
While Inkscape is still missing features compared to FreeHand it is however also still here many years later and is what I've used ever since when I need 2D vector design software. (Although I've also been keeping an eye on Graphite: https://graphite.rs)
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[0] Oh, weird, apparently it's actually less than 25 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_FreeHand#Adobe_FreeHand Seems I've been holding the grudge for less time than I thought. :D
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Bezier-rs – algorithms for Bézier segments and shapes
That doesn't sound right, nearest-point queries for cubic Béziers take at least a quintic solver, and this library uses a subdivision-based algorithm with Bernstein polynomials that is seemingly designed to work with any degree [0]. (Or at least, it doesn't have any code that complains when the degree is too large.)
[0] https://github.com/GraphiteEditor/Graphite/blob/master/libra...
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Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
A tool which looks at this sort of thing which was mentioned here recently:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44118159
but which didn't seem to get much traction is:
https://pontus.granstrom.me/scrappy/
but it pretty much only works for JavaScript programmers and their friends (or folks interested in learning JavaScript).
Other tools which I'd like to put forward as meriting discussion in this context include:
- LyX --- making new layout files allows a user to create a customized tool for pretty much any sort of document they might wish to work on --- a front-end for LaTeX
- pyspread --- every cell being either a Python program or the output of a program, and the possibility of cells being an image allows one to do pretty much anything without the overhead of making or reading a file
- Ipe https://ipe.otfried.org/ --- an extensible drawing program, this really needs a simpler mechanism for that and I'd love to see a tool in the vector drawing space which addressed that --- perhaps the nascent https://graphite.rs/ ?
- Graphite: Node-based, non-destructive, procedural 2D vector editor
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Shaderblocks: Block-Based Image Editing
https://graphite.rs/ (still early in development) offers node-based editing.
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2D Content Creation Tool (Open Source Photoshop?)
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Q3 dev update for Graphite, a Blender-inspired 2D procedural design Rust app
I was referring to the link posted to HN: https://graphite.rs/
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Inkscape 1.4 Released
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
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GraphiteEditor/Graphite is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.
Graphite is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.
The primary programming language of Graphite is Rust.
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