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Products that do what Svglib a SVG parser and renderer for Windows does
svglib is a SVG file parser and renderer library for Windows. It uses Direct2D for GPU assisted rendering and XMLLite for XML parsing. This is meant for Win32 applications and games to easily display SVG images.
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Svader is a library for rendering 2D shaders on Svelte websites, using either WebGL or WebGPU. It's streamlined for the specific use case of rendering 2D graphics using fragment shaders as an alternative to SVG or the JS canvas API, so it's not meant for doing 3D objects like three.js, for example. This started as something I needed for my own project, but I eventually decided to split it into a separate library. I've since found that this use case fits really well into the Svelte compiler-based approach and its fine-grained reactivity system. In general, I think using shaders like these has…
2024 · github.com
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2025 · seve.blog
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I have been working on Hyvector for the last five years and finally decided to present the result of my work. Hyvector is an SVG editor that runs in all modern browsers. It is stable, very fast, and capable of handling complex SVG images. Big new features like art strokes, vector tracing, colorizing are in the making, but for now the focus is on pushing a polished first release out of the door. I would love to hear any feedback on what you like, missing features, or any bugs you encounter via our issue tracker: https://github.com/hyvectorapp/hyvector-issues Note that…
2025 · hyvector.com
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2016 · ivanceras.github.io
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2022 · svelvet.io
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Here's a project I've been working on for a little while now. Ripl is a JS library that provides a unified API for rendering shapes on both canvas and SVG interchangeably. Over the years I've used D3 extensively to create data visualisations so I figured I'd have a go at making my own version with a slightly more modern API and stricter TypeScript support. I am aware there are already libraries that can draw to multiple contexts interchangeably, but I've added a few little niceties to Ripl that (as far as I know) some other libraries don't have such as CSS-like query selectors, DOM-like…
2024 · github.com
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2021 · svija.love
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Expressive Animator is an SVG vector animation software that helps users create and export animated icons, logos, and illustrations. Users can import SVG, PDF, Adobe Illustrator files, and Figma designs, and animate them using easing controls, motion paths, masking, and other techniques. Expressive Animator also allow users to export their animations in other formats as Lottie, GIF, PNG, and video.
2025 · expressive.app
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Just wanted to share with HN a simple/minimal open source Python library that generates SVG files visualizing two dimensional data and distributions, in case others find it useful or interesting. I wrote it as a fun project, mostly because I found that the standard libraries in Python generated unnecessarily large SVG files. One nice property is that I can configure the visuals through CSS, which allows me to support dark/light mode browser settings. The graphs are specified as JSON files (the repository includes a few examples). It supports scatterplots, line plots, histograms,…
Mar 2026 · github.com
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2022 · sketchy.cs.brown.edu
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I’ve just released VectorNest — an open-source, browser-based SVG editor. If you have an SVG and need quick edits (paths, alignment, small fixes, animations, LLM assistance) without installing software, this is for you. Try the demo: https://ekrsulov.github.io/vectornest/ GitHub repo: https://github.com/ekrsulov/vectornest Feedback, issues and contributions are welcome.
Feb 2026 · ekrsulov.github.io
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