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by alecst 1942 days ago
Looks great for me on my old MacBook Air, 10.14. And you picked a great set of images. The svgasm of the lions really struck me, it was almost art in its own right -- how you might see the lions if you weren't looking at the details, but just the feeling. Projecting my own emotions maybe, but really cool stuff and pretty inspiring that it took so little time to implement.
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Thank you for your interest. What browser do you use? It seems to work better on Safari on my MBA.

Also, as stated on my GitHub page I used primitive [1] for the lions example. What svgasm adds to primitive and other tracer tools is the ability to process a GIF (or a sequence of images) and make an SVG animation out of the sequence.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12539109

Can this be recompiled with JavaScript?
Do you mean recompiling primitive or svgasm to JavaScript? No, it is not currently possible.

But yea it would be cool to have a web version of svgasm that uses some Javascript raster image tracers out there. I will be working on it and posting to HN later to anyone who's interested.

yep a web version, something like canvg that can be implemented into a web product, https://github.com/canvg/canvg