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   by ttd 2y ago

   Oh wow, thank you for linking that paper. I've been working an interactive tool for a while and have been musing on new constraint and layout types to add. Anecdotally it seems a lot of mainstream graph layout algorithms work well for
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   by ttd 2y ago

   Does Cloudcraft do generic diagramming? At least from the landing page it seems pretty purpose-built for cloud architecture diagramming only. I also have to give major kudos for whoever made the call to go with an isometric projection... vi
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   by ttd 2y ago

   Hah, I appreciate the distinction on enterprise-grade... Anything in particular you like or dislike in particular from your experience with Lucidchart or draw.io?
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   by ttd 2y ago

   TIL org-mode can do that (though I really shouldn't be surprised). Thanks for the info!
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   by ttd 2y ago

   Mind if I ask what kinds of limitations you're running into with Miro (and the other tools)?
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   by ttd 2y ago

   Do you use your AWS infra diagrams primarily as internal documentation? Or, where else do they end up?
7. 67.▲
   by ttd 2y ago

   For your large audience cases - do those typically go in one-off presentations or are they for more long-lived things (design docs, customer-facing docs, etc)?
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   by ttd 2y ago

   I completely get this usecase, TikZ is great but sometimes WYSIWYG is just easier to work with. Re: math stuff in particular, you may be in luck, my tool does already support LaTeX equations as first-class objects. Check out https:/&#
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   by ttd 2y ago

   Hey, I got some good use out of Emacs artist-mode for a while - so I love seeing ideas like this! Thanks for linking that, hadn't seen it before.
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    by ttd 2y ago

    Definitely a personal fan of Graphviz as well! One thing I'm curious about are usecases that require version-controlled diagram sources. Do you guys have e.g. a build step that updates the rendered version somewhere? Or Confluence inte
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    Ask HN: What do you use to create diagrams?

    61 points by ttd 2y ago|79 comments
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    by ttd 2y ago

    Thank you, that's exactly the passage I was looking for!
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    by ttd 2y ago

    This article hits close to home for me! Coincidentally, I also started making apps in high school using REALbasic, before moving on to my first "real" language Perl, and am also working on launching a new app now [1]. On the artic
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    by ttd 2y ago

    Creator / developer here - happy to answer questions!
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    Show HN: Create technical diagrams with snapping, LaTeX, and more(app.vexlio.com)

    4 points by ttd 2y ago|2 comments
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    by ttd 5y ago

    Well, the reparameterization idea is quite convenient if the operations you want to perform are more naturally expressed in the new parameter domain. Path dashing is a good example: in arc-length domain, simply take fixed steps in u (say 0.
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    by ttd 5y ago

    I read this paper pretty recently, and I was interested in how they handled dashing, since arc length parameterizations are one of the harder problems with Bezier curves (useful for making even steps along the length of the curve, rather th
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    by ttd 6y ago

    Those are two really well written articles -- taking a complicated topic and making it very accessible. Thanks! FWIW I think a companion article on how to effectively use perf for tasks like this would be a great addition, since it can be a
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    by ttd 7y ago

    Native LaTeX equation editing for technical diagrams was probably the biggest itch I wanted to scratch with the diagramming application I wrote ( https://vexlio.com ). Unfortunately I haven't had much time to devote to develo
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    by ttd 8y ago

    Thanks, I hope you find it useful!
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    by ttd 8y ago

    Thanks, I'm glad you like it! I should experiment with Wine to see if any of the finicky behavior is something I can fix on the Vexlio side. There has been a lot of interest in a native Linux version, and it is on the longer-term roadm
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    by ttd 8y ago

    I'll put in a plug for an offline diagramming tool that I created, Vexlio ( https://vexlio.com ). It has some neat features like embedded LaTeX equation editing, nice snapping, and a program mode (so you can draw diagrams in
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    by ttd 8y ago

    Curious if you have encountered Halide ( http://halide-lang.org/ ) and if so, your impression or thoughts. The main advantage is being able to easily express optimizations like the one you mentioned, allowing you to experimen
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    by ttd 9y ago

    If you're looking for more in-depth information on Bezier curves, I've found this document invaluable on more than one occasion, both for math and implementation suggestions: https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo&#x2F
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    by ttd 9y ago

    Skia (via SkiaSharp) is the rendering backend for my vector graphics diagramming application ( https://vexlio.com ). I chose it in part because it had much better performance than Cairo when I was testing both. Also the MIT licens
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    by ttd 9y ago

    Thanks for your kind words, I appreciate it! And I'm glad you've been enjoying Vexlio so far :-).
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    by ttd 9y ago

    Hi HN, Author here --- happy to answer any questions you may have.
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    Drawing simple generative organics with L-systems(vexlio.com)

    55 points by ttd 9y ago|3 comments
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    by ttd 9y ago

    I built and HN-launched Vexlio ( https://www.vexlio.com ), a technical diagramming tool with embedded LaTeX equations, an interactive Lua-drawing mode, and other assorted neat features. It's finally reached a fairly stable po
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    by ttd 9y ago

    If we're being pedantic, then it is a compiler. It's a compiler that targets another high-level language instead of a lowered representation. Transpiler is (in my opinion) a meaningless specialization of the word compiler. The cor