dim — 3D Application based on SVG for graphic designers

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About

In this app, one can easily import (copy & paste) 2D path images from Adobe Illustrator CC (or other vector graphic software that uses SVG clipboard) to a 3D space and view, transform, extrude, revolve, sweep, map to a spline or a surface, and export (copy & paste) the result back to Adobe Illustrator. 3D matrix operations are applied to vector data. No rasterize.

Path data are stored as a simple array of 3D coordinates and you can switch the interpolation algorithm between Linear, B-Spline(Cubic), B-Spline(Quadratic), Cubic Bezier. B-Splines will be deconstructed to cubic bezier on SVG rendering and exporting.

It also has a set of vector graphic tools that work inside the 3D space:

Pen Polygon Star Ellipse Doodle Pixel Art Spiral Cycloid

Concepts

SVG Bezier Curves B-Spline Curves Perspective Projection Orthographic Projection Oblique Projection

Inspired from

Adobe dimensions(3.0J)
the app we used for the book “Arbitary Point P” by Keio University Masahiko Sato Laboratory + Norio Nakamura (bijutsu.press)
“SiNYO Beta” by Hajime Tachibana
Takenobu Igarashi
“3D Graphics Programming from Scratch” by Gustavo Pezzi (pikuma.com)
“The Continuity of Splines” by Freya Holmér (YouTube)
“B-Spline Decomposition” by designcoding (designcoding.net)
Concept of “Workplane” from Modo by Foundry
“Plastacity” by plasticity.xyz (plasticity.xyz)
“Interface Craft” by Josh Puckett (interfacecraft.dev)

Sample Scenes

Background

I have been working on my own 3D graphic design app “dim”, a non destructive path based companion to Adobe Illustrator (or other 2D vector apps) inspired from Adobe dimensions, a software I used when I started my career as a student, and continued using since then.

Past 5 years, I studied 3D projection, spline interpolation algorithm, svg, and wrote a renderer, parser from scratch. Thanks to ai coding, the app has reached a point that I can finally move over from Adobe dimensions and I also wanted to share this tool to others (graphic designers that can not fit to pixel based 3D apps, like me).

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