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Simon Willison

Very impressed by Recraft AI - a new image generation service that can generate editable vector graphics that you can export as SVG

This seems massively more useful than tools that can only output raster graphics
simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/15/

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Simon Willison

It did extremely well at my pelican on a bicycle test:

curl 'http's://external.api.recraft.ai/v1/images/generations \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $API" \
-d '{
"prompt": "california brown pelican riding a bicycle",
"style": "vector_illustration",
"model": "recraftv3"
}'

Truly excellent SVG of a California Brown Pelican riding a bicycle
Daniel

@simon Wonderful!

Do we know if it's out of a LLM? Or rather a hybrid solution where they generate an image from the prompt and then vectorize it to SVG?

Because that result looks way better than anything I've seen coming from a plain LLM.

Simon Willison

@djh definitely not an LLM, it's more like Stable Diffusion - I'd love to understand how the vector thing works though

Neil Kandalgaonkar

@simon I just tried it and it's a little bit mind-blowing. Do you know if it is generating ordinary images and then vectorizing them, or is it making vectors directly somehow?

felix (grayscale) 🐺

@simon my current image gen test is "toaster lying on its side". no image generator has succeeded at this yet, no matter what wording I try

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