Geometrize Haxe is a Haxe library for recreating images with geometric primitives. Run the demo in your browser.
Geometrize Haxe is part of Geometrize and was inspired by the primitive Go library.
- Recreate images as geometric primitives - rectangles, rotated rectangles, triangles, circles, ellipses, rotated ellipses, lines and beziers are supported.
- Export generated shape data to JSON.
- Export geometrized images as SVGs.
- All Haxe targets are supported.
The matrix shows typical results for circles, triangles, rotated rectangles, rotated ellipses and all supported shapes at 50, 200 and 500 total shapes:
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| Rotated Rectangles |  |
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| Rotated Ellipses |  |
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| All Shapes |  |
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A user provides a target image, and the algorithm finds shapes to approximate that image. To identify a good shape, the algorithm generates a large number of random candidate shapes, repeatedly improving the fit of each using a hillclimbing optimization approach, eventually choosing the best-fitting shape. The shapes are added one by one.
If you are working in JavaScript, check out geometrizejs which provides JavaScript API and types for this library, tested on browser and Node.js.
On top of it, geometrizejs-cli tool provides command line interface and support for common image formats.
Get the Haxe library from GitHub or through haxelib:
haxelib install geometrize-haxe- Instantiate an
ImageRunner, passing it aBitmaptarget image and a starting backgroundRgbacolor. - Generate shapes by repeatedly calling
runner.step(options), passing in yourImageRunnerOptions. - Export the results using the
exportmethods onSvgExporterandShapeJsonExporter.
Refer to the library documentation. Also see the Geometrize Haxe web demo and code, or this HaxeFlixel example and code.
- See the Geometrize resources page.
Geometrized public domain artwork and photos:
For more examples, see the Geometrize gallery.