RoughJS
Languages and libraries
graphics library
SHOW HN2018
How HN took it
25 positive, 22 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 6 critical, out of 54 comments about the project. Thread score +0.35.
Idea: 10 for, 1 againstDesign: 6 for, 1 againstExecution: 2 for, 4 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun and delightful hand-drawn look
From 4 comments
This is just lovely :) I guess I don't really have much to add, other than to say you've delighted me with this
CodeCube on HNThis has made me so much happy. Thank you. Brilliant stuff. I've been looking for something that does this and have just started having fun with this problem using P5.js and…
yantrams on HNAw man I love this. Thank you!
FromTheId on HNThis is fantastic!
ashleymarsh on HN
Useful for education and presentations
From 2 comments
Not joking at all, I assure you! Primary use case is for education/training materials where a flat or prescribed style is not desirable, and also because despite my girlfriend…
petecooper on HNThat’s great, I’ve been looking for a Sketch 3 plugin that was doing that for a while (it doesn’t exist yet) It could potentially be wrapped in a plugin. When presenting designs,…
daleco on HN
Examples like D3 bar chart and maps
From 2 comments
I drew a map with RoughJS and d3 (3rd example ->)https://github.com/pshihn/rough/wiki/Examples I'm sure Charts and all would be easy too.
shihn on HNHere- took a quick stab at it: http://roughjs.com/examples/bar-chart.html
shihn on HN
Objections
Does not work in Firefox at the time
From 3 comments
This is not working in Firefox. Not sure why.
chrismorgan on HNFYI: Blank page (with title text) in Firefox (58.0.2, 64-bit, Windows).
unwind on HNYup. Only worked in Chrome for me too.
piyush_soni on HN
Rendering too much randomness can be dizzying
From 1 comment
Quite headache-inducing. To me at least. There seems to be quite a challenge to make something look hand-drawn and also not change it so much on every drawn frame that you don't…
ygra on HN
Hatching misaligned on complex SVG maps
From 1 comment
Cool. I notice on the map example that the hatching lines in some of the states (South Dakota and Georgia, for example) don't quite match up. Why is that?
chestervonwinch on HN
Requests
React component wrapper
From 1 comment
Any plan for a react component?
fleur-de-lotus on HN
Deterministic rendering option
From 1 comment
Having an option to make the result deterministic would be nice. That way you can use it for drawing stuff that's guaranteed to be rendered identically when loaded at different…
nazri1 on HN
High-DPI screen support
From 1 comment
Fantastic! I love this sort of thing, hope to see it used a lot. Could definitely use support for high-DPI screens.
glhaynes on HN
Questions
Support for animation
From 1 comment
Awesome. I was about to ask about D3 support. But now that I'm here... Is there any support for animation?
swagasaurus-rex on HN
Export or use with Inkscape
From 1 comment
Does anyone know how this can be exported/used/translated to work with Inkscape?
pit2 on HN
Alternatives named
Zwibbler drawing tool
From 1 comment
In the same vein, I've been using Zwibbler ( http://zwibbler.com/demo/ ) for all the illustrations on my blog ( http://vjeux.com ) and it's been really nice to have images that…
vjeux on HN
Sketchify online tool
From 1 comment
There is an online tool supporting this called Sketchify. https://www.toolparadise.nl You need to create an account (for storing drawing profiles), but the usage is free.
ErikOnBike on HN
d3-sketchy
From 1 comment
Related work: https://github.com/emeeks/d3-sketchy
1wheel on HN
Shaky / ShakyDraw
From 2 comments
was it this? http://shaky.github.bushong.net/
LeonB on HNI bet you mean http://shakydraw.com, HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14606544
keenrodent on HN