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Show HN: Graphite, a Blender-inspired 2D procedural design Rust app

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783 points Keavon | 3 comments | 15 Oct 24 22:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source

For the past three years I've been building what I hope will be the next Blender, tackling the lack of any good 2D design or image editing tools outside the Adobe monopoly. This was our first year participating in Google Summer of Code and this Q3 update includes the big payoff from that, covering the most progress we've made so far as a project. If you're a Rust dev, consider getting involved as we apply for the next GSoC in the new year— you could be our intern next summer :)

Q3 progress report: https://graphite.rs/blog/graphite-progress-report-q3-2024/

1. WillAdams ◴[16 Oct 24 11:04 UTC] No.41857716[source]▶
This is almost exactly the tool I have wanted for a long while.

The one thing is when something is drawn in the interactive UI, rather than becoming a single node which cannot be decomposed/worked with via sub-elements, it should become (or there should be an option for) "ungrouping" it to an equivalent set of nodes/values --- if this capability is present, I couldn't figure it out, and I'd be glad to know of it.

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2. WillAdams ◴[16 Oct 24 18:34 UTC] No.41862227[source]▶
See answer at:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41862107

3. Keavon ◴[16 Oct 24 18:35 UTC] No.41862241[source]▶
Feel free to drop by our Discord and go into more detail about this. I think we may need to discuss it for me to understand exactly what you're describing.