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Cool!

It seems to not recognize shapes and instead renders them using a bunch of lines, though (just like in the ASCII version). This is visible, at least in Safari 10.

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Yep, I want to add an optimizer to reduce the svg elements into paths and into simplest form possible, when I have more time.

Would this https://github.com/svg/svgo help?

Have tried it, but it seems it can't reduce seperate lines into paths. I'll have to reduce the separate lines first in my first pass.

Would you be able to repurpose algorithms from ImageMagick for this?

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