Book of Shapes – Collection of minimal, generative and customizable SVG-patterns (bookofshapes.com)

247 points by eustoria 2 days ago

23 comments:

by kachnuv_ocasek 11 hours ago

Beautiful. Reminds me of the amazing visual art of Adam Fuhrer[1].

[1]: https://adamfuhrer.com/

by paulirish 8 hours ago

Etienne Jacob has similar vibes: https://bleuje.com/animationsite/2024_1/ And quite satisfying.

by plmpsu an hour ago

Wow.

by fireproof_ 10 hours ago

I've been building something similar[1], but focused more on generating desktop/mobile wallpapers based on a desktop theme.

Most of the designs is build via python-scripts that generate the final SVG's which then can be recolored in browser. Claude + a harness is surprisingly adept at generating these scripts, i guess pelicanmaxxing might be the reason?

[1] https://github.com/nickolaj-jepsen/walldye

by sampsn 2 hours ago

yah i like this, i downloaded a bunch, thanks

by virtualritz 13 hours ago

Is this a rip of turtletoy[1] content?

[1] https://turtletoy.net/

by tiborsaas 11 hours ago

Why would it be a ripoff? Generative art sites are like this.

Turtle toy is really neat, thanks for the tip.

by nsokolowski 8 hours ago

Cool Page. But I did not know it when creating bookofshapes ;)

by virtualritz 8 hours ago

But your clanker probaly did. ;)

by kdkdiwkdiwzjj 4 hours ago

What’s with calling AI “clanker”? I’m seeing it more and more, and, honestly, the more I see it the stupider it sounds.

by iFreilicht 3 hours ago

It's basically a derogatory term for AI. I've seen it used the same way a slur would be used to berate a person.

by kdkdiwkdiwzjj 2 hours ago

Got that from context; I’m just baffled, really. Seeing people call AI “clankers” is like watching a third grader call another “poopy head”. It’s just depressingly infantile.

by kanapala 12 hours ago

who knows with vibe-coded stuff?

by albert_e 12 hours ago

Looks useful. I was experimenting with making an SVG creator tool that can churn out shapes that go beyond the shape library of microsoft powerpoint -- so my slides can stand out. Things like a hexagon with rounded corners, squircle, swooshes and blobs etc.

Patterns like these are useful as well.

by WillAdams 10 hours ago

One problem which I've had working in this space is the difficulty of naming specific shapes --- worked up a list in my current project:

https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/blob/main/gcodepre...

(should be section 3.8.1.1 on pg. 97, not sure, since I need to push up an update)

and I'd be glad of any comment or correction or point of improvement.

by loclol101 an hour ago

Amazing! this is beautiful.

by kn330 7 hours ago

Forgive my non-creative brain but who is this for? and how/where can this be used?

by LEDThereBeLight 6 hours ago

It’s research. It’s not for anyone, until someone who needs it sees it and starts using it.

by haktan 2 hours ago

This site is great, very cool.

by robobo96 4 hours ago

Wow, how did you create these?

by iFreilicht 3 hours ago

AI obviously.

by dominicrose 10 hours ago

unimportant detail but the Liked button doesn't show any shape

by ericyd 9 hours ago

Very nice collection!

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