Sverg

Sverg is an experimental image editor that leverages the power of modern hardware so that you can create images as if they were raster images (eg painting with a brush), but edit them as if they were vector images.

Current Status

Functional but Useless. You can draw on a canvas with a single brush with configurable color/size. The brush is fixed as a spiral shape, and it can only save/load to a hard-coded filepath.

See the TODO file for more details

License.

Undecided. Probably MIT or something like that.

The very initial plan:

Python provides the UI and feeds events into the application. This makes it very easy to customize for different displays etc.

The rust library provides the API's for saving, loading, drawing etc.

There are some edge cases about custom widgets (eg gradient tools), but to me these are part of the GUI and should reside in python.

1920 * 1080 * 4 * 4 = 33.2 Mb Compared to modern VRAM, this is tiny, we can probably store some 60 layers even on low end hardware.

The plan: -> A fixed number of "canvas-bitmaps" in the GPU, determined by some setting (or perhaps based on measuring VRAM?) -> The dependency Tree figures out how best to utilize these "canvas-bitmaps" by placing them at critical junctions