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by asimpletune 1165 days ago
I too put my site's landing nav in an illustration: https://spenc.es

The SVG spec is huge and totally under-appreciated. There is plenty of it too that hasn't been implemented by browser vendors yet, like mesh gradients. There's even an animation language (that doesn't use CSS or JS) called SMIL that I didn't even know existed until about a week ago.

SVG though is super powerful and its full potential has yet to be realized. It is for graphics what HTML is for content, thus making layers, paths, groups, everything scriptable.
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me_bx 1164 days ago
Neat!

Feedback: browsing from a desktop computer, although the "contact me" globe does not overlap much with "writing" and "projects" visuals, most of the globe's surface triggers a click on either "writing" or "projects" links, instead of leading to the contact page. Happens both on firefox and chromium, linux.

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asimpletune 1164 days ago
Thanks for pointing that out
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lloydatkinson 1165 days ago
Last I heard Google wanted to deprecated SMIL but then changed their minds and I've no idea what the latest is
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leephillips 1165 days ago
Love the landing page. And you’re right, SVG is powerful.
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asimpletune 1164 days ago
Hey, thank you so much for the compliment!

And re:SVG, HN can be so serendipitous in that way. You're deep in some topic, only to find some of that exact same stuff on the front page the next day.

If anyone is curious (or has advice); I'm working on process that takes architectural photos as input and produces layered SVG illustrations as output. The intent is to turn the city where I live, Bologna, Italy, into kind of a digital dollhouse, where you can click on different buildings and look inside and discover and learn interesting historical stuff.

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leephillips 1164 days ago
That sounds like a great project. I maintain the webpage for a planetarium group (with SVG things on the landing page: https://friendsoftheplanetarium.org) and have thought about doing something like you describe just for the planetarium. I’d like to follow your progress on this. I didn’t see an RSS link on your page, so I guess I’ll have to remember to visit it now and then.
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