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Hello :) I'm the author of this notebook if you have any questions.

I'm also currently working on a plugin for Adobe Illustrator based on this. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/tIPTjLsr.png

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Have you seen the shadertoy implementation? https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XsX3zf He refers to the following paper. http://hhoppe.com/ravg.pdf

Thank you so much for the illustrator plugin work! It was the first thing I thought of after reading and the reason I clicked on it in the first place. I wish you the best with it, if you ever need beta testers or if there's a way you need help I'd love to. (I run CC 18 on a Windows 10 64bit install).

Nice Article!

May I ask how you made the notebook interactive? Is this based on a jupyter notebook?

It's a new project from Mike Bostock and others that was on the front page a couple weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16274686

Great work. How hard was it to integrate it as an Illustrator plugin ?

Thanks! Actually it wasn't too difficult. It's all in C++ but the Adobe Illustrator SDK came with some examples that were pretty close to what I wanted already. Once I'd figured out the maths I had a prototype working in about a day.

The one thing left that I can't figure out is how to have the curvature comb update live as you drag the Bezier control points. Currently it only updates when you mouse up.

Does it run on multiple platforms, or only OSX?

It should run fine on Windows as well, but I haven't had a chance to test.

Would you mind creating a plugin also for Inkscape?

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