Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to A new spline
I’ve been heads-down for the last month or so working on a new spline, and now I’m excited to show it to the world. It is a continuation of the Spiro work I did for my PhD thesis, and solves most of the problems that held that back from wider popularity.
A new spline is a curve-drawing tool based on continued research from PhD thesis work on Spiro technology. It addresses previous limitations of Spiro, particularly the constraint solver's tendency to fail convergence… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A new spline launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Expand your 3d creative process with AI
2023 · spline.design · its alternatives →
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Here's a "behind-the-scenes" look at my development of a cool sensor during my PhD (electrical engineering). This sensor is only about 1/3 of my total research for my degree and took about a year. I've been on HN for a while now and I've seen my fair share of posts about the woes of pursuing a PhD. Now that I'm done with mine I wanna share some anecdotal evidence that doing a PhD can actually be enjoyable (not necessarily easy) and also be doable in 3 years. When I started I knew I didn't want to work on something that would never leave the lab or languish in a dissertation PDF no one…
2024 · paulbupejr.com · its alternatives →
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Minimalist Electron app for designing spline curves - AntixK/Curve-Studio
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Create plotter-like line drawings from your images.
2021 · javier.xyz · its alternatives →
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Flow▲409Animate Sketch designs and generate production-ready code.
2017 · createwithflow.com · its alternatives →
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Prunt is an advanced open-source motion control system targetted at 3D printers. Prunt includes features not found in other popular open-source systems, including: Corner blending with user defined deviation. Constrained and independently adjustable velocity, acceleration, jerk, snap, and crackle. P
2024 · 600f3559.prunt-docs.pages.dev · its alternatives →
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Mark▲358Create flowcharts & diagrams in seconds powered by AI
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Sketch 3▲297Liquid Glass redesign, an all-new Inspector, and more
2014 · sketch.com · its alternatives →
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Generative art coded in p5.js and pen plotted using an AxiDraw V3/A3.
2023 · adamfuhrer.com · its alternatives →
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Creating high-quality scientific figures can be time-consuming and challenging, even though sketching ideas on paper is relatively easy. Furthermore, recreating existing figures that are not stored in formats preserving semantic information is equally complex. To tackle this problem, we introduce DeTikZify, a novel multimodal language model that automatically synthesizes scientific figures as semantics-preserving TikZ graphics programs based on sketches and existing figures. We also introduce a Monte Carlo Tree Search-based inference algorithm that enables DeTikZify to iteratively refine its…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An official collection of Sketch extensions & plugins
2016 · sketch.com · its alternatives →
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Quickly launch your website with 3D coming soon pages
2023 · splinesoon.framer.website · its alternatives →
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neoSVG 3▲272The next generation of our flagship Text to SVG models
2024 · neosvg.com · its alternatives →
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I'm enthralled with using pen plotters to make generative art. Last August at SIGGRAPH, I built an interactive experience for others to see how code can be used to make visual art. The linked blog post is my trials and tribulations of linking a MIDI controller to one of these algorithms and sending its output to a plotter, so that people may witness the end-to-end experience.
2024 · lostpixels.io · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I want to share a personal project: I made a tiny pen-plotted book for my wife. I did everything myself—drawings (with some help from Midjourney), plotting, cutting, and binding. I even used a 3D printer to make a helper tool. It's absolutely over-engineered, but I enjoyed it a lot. Multi-disciplinary projects, especially those with a physical output, are a lot of fun for me. The post covers the process in detail, but if you're interested in anything specific, let me know. Cheers!
2025 · muffinman.io · its alternatives →
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