Book of Shapes – Collection of minimal, generative and customizable SVG-patterns (bookofshapes.com)
246 points by eustoria 2 days ago
kachnuv_ocasek 11 hours ago
Beautiful. Reminds me of the amazing visual art of Adam Fuhrer[1].
paulirish 7 hours ago
Etienne Jacob has similar vibes: https://bleuje.com/animationsite/2024_1/ And quite satisfying.
plmpsu 34 minutes ago
Wow.
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?
sampsn an hour ago
yah i like this, i downloaded a bunch, thanks
virtualritz 12 hours ago
Is this a rip of turtletoy[1] content?
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.
nsokolowski 7 hours ago
Cool Page. But I did not know it when creating bookofshapes ;)
virtualritz 7 hours ago
But your clanker probaly did. ;)
kdkdiwkdiwzjj 4 hours ago
kanapala 12 hours ago
who knows with vibe-coded stuff?
loclol101 an hour ago
Amazing! this is beautiful.
albert_e 11 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.
WillAdams 9 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.
haktan 2 hours ago
This site is great, very cool.
kn330 7 hours ago
Forgive my non-creative brain but who is this for? and how/where can this be used?
LEDThereBeLight 6 hours ago
It’s research. It’s not for anyone, until someone who needs it sees it and starts using it.
robobo96 4 hours ago
Wow, how did you create these?
iFreilicht 3 hours ago
AI obviously.
dominicrose 10 hours ago
unimportant detail but the Liked button doesn't show any shape
ericyd 9 hours ago
Very nice collection!