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

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783 points Keavon | 2 comments | 15 Oct 24 22:32 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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/

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qwertox ◴[16 Oct 24 04:59 UTC] No.41855769[source]▶
This is the kind of stuff I love to see at the top of HN, that application looks absolutely professional.

When searching for "scripting" on the pages, I don't see any scripting support. Are there plans to integrate it?

Also some kind of API?

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Keavon ◴[16 Oct 24 05:30 UTC] No.41855914[source]▶
Thanks!

No support for custom scripts yet. But the whole concept is that we're basically building a WYSIWYG editor on top of a node-based compositor on top of a visual programming language (so that's three products in one, lots of work ahead for us!). The result is that the whole thing is a programmatic data pipeline and you'll be able to write custom scripts in both node and code form, then compose them into reusable pieces and pipelines. But since we're building three products in one, we have only been able to focus on the parts that matter most to get things working. Your request hasn't yet been one of those, but worry not, that's very much a core feature.

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WillAdams ◴[16 Oct 24 12:22 UTC] No.41858249[source]▶
Is it possible to draw a Bézier curve, then decompose it in the Node Editor to a set of numeric nodes which input into a Bézier node? I couldn't figure out how to do that (mentioned it elsethread).
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1. Keavon ◴[16 Oct 24 18:25 UTC] No.41862107[source]▶
You could ask that in our Discord and we can give more advanced guidance, but that isn't something we specifically have nodes for yet. We are building a spreadsheet view for working with all the data in numeric form, and once we have that plus some nodes for interacting with the spreadsheet data, your use case will become more naturally represented.
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2. WillAdams ◴[16 Oct 24 18:33 UTC] No.41862220[source]▶
This is a usage model which I would advocate for --- the ability to record series of actions and then edit them made using WordBASIC to automate Microsoft Word far more accessible/discoverable for me.