[HN Gopher] StarVector: Generating Scalable Vector Graphics Code...
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StarVector: Generating Scalable Vector Graphics Code from Images
and Text
Author : lnyan
Score : 62 points
Date : 2025-03-22 02:25 UTC (4 days ago)
(HTM) web link (starvector.github.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (starvector.github.io)
| iFire wrote:
| Horray. Code is released
| peter_d_sherman wrote:
| This would be absolutely _GREAT_ for generating icons for
| applications!
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| (Also would make a great SaaS... for $X/month ($9.95, $19.95,
| ??.??) generate unlimited icons...)
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| Congrats to the team for their pioneering hard work in this
| nascent area of LLM/Transformer research!
|
| Well done!
| smahs wrote:
| No it won't (most likely). VTracer (which the authors compare
| with) is fast, runs in browser via wasm, consumes way less
| resources and can even convert natural images very decently.
| But the model seems cool for the usecase of prompt to logo or
| icon (over my current workflow of getting a jpg from flux and
| passing it through VTracer). I hope someone over at llama.cpp
| notices this (at least for the text-to-svg usecase, if not
| multimodal).
| aikinai wrote:
| I've been waiting for someone to make something like this!
| Perfect.
| rahimnathwani wrote:
| Note: StarVector models will not work for natural images or
| illustrations, as they have not been trained on those images.
| They excel in vectorizing icons, logotypes, technical diagrams,
| graphs, and charts.
| jasonjmcghee wrote:
| Did anyone else notice - the molecule it generated did not match
| the source image.
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| Seems like this could be incredibly valuable, but I'd argue there
| needs to be validation steps in place to confirm it's actually
| generating the right thing, for the case of image -> vector
| generation.
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