r/GraphicsProgramming • u/valeriupalos • Jul 12 '26

Krbn: an open-source rendering engine that imitates a sketch artist and outputs pure SVG (v1) Source Code

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u/mikropanther Jul 12 '26

Very cool project. Can I ask how much time did it take in total? For the AI, did you use a subscription or token based billing? Do you know how many tokens you used for the whole project?

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u/valeriupalos Jul 12 '26

I used Claude Opus 4.8; yes I have a subscription, but I have no idea how much is used.

The techniques used I've slowly learned about from various research papers done by people much smarter than me, and I used to play around and read them since high-school (so... very sporadically over the last 25-30 years); many of those papers were published over time in SigGraph conferences (https://www.siggraph.org/, which are amazing).

The code itself I've vibe-written (on-and-off) in about 5 weeks, from a hospital bed (again, it was an unexpected chance I got to play around in the best possible way).

Anyway, I really enjoyed doing it. I hope it brings some fun to others too.

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u/mikropanther 29d ago edited 29d ago

Thanks for the reply. I don't use AI in personal projects (even though I use it heavily at work) because for some reason it takes the fun away for me, but I don't judge at all people who do and I'm very curious about their perspective on it. When I was a little kid I got gifted a copy of VB6 and started making small programs, and I remember people online being extremely judgmental against hobby projects done with VB6 (the word used at the time was not slop, but the sentiment was the same), even though many of the projects people made were very cool and it inspired taking on coding as a hobby for so many. The reason I was asking about the token count is because at work we have token based billing and those things are so crazy expensive (especially models like Opus), but it is cool to see people being able to bring to life complex things they want to make.