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Simon Willison
@simonwillison.net

Very impressed by Recraft AI - a new image generation service that can generate editable vector graphics that you can export as SVG This seems massively more useful than tools that can only output raster graphics simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/15/...

simonwillison.netRecraft V3Recraft are a generative AI design tool startup based out of London who released their v3 model a few weeks ago. It's currently sat at the top of the [Artificial …

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alex
@sbsbsb.sbs

oh this is perfect! One of these days I was trying to have Claude generate some svg and it is not so good. But this — what a leap!

alex
@sbsbsb.sbs

although I can still not shake the fact that this is rather inefficient — or reliant on web services. I wonder how long until a reliable image model like this runs locally.

Simon Willison
@simonwillison.net

It did extremely well at my pelican on a bicycle test: curl 'http's://external.api.recraft.ai/v1/images/generations \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $API" \ -d '{ "prompt": "california brown pelican riding a bicycle", "style": "vector_illustration", "model": "recraftv3" }'

Tom Resing
@tomresing.com

I noticed you used 1Password's CLI for your secret vault. Looks like a good idea if you have 1Password. I notice a lot of people use environment variables instead.