Daub
Headless calibrated-brush renderer: strokes JSON to PNG + layered .kra + layered .psd + reveal video. Pure Rust, no Krita process needed.
Details
- External ID
- 1364116355
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- Daub
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 45
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8022674865488086
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 5:28 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 5:28 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- niche developer utilities and toolchains
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- headless calibrated-brush stroke renderer written in rust
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Creating a headless brush renderer that outputs layered .kra and .psd files requires implementing complex 2D rasterization, blending modes, and reverse-engineering proprietary/complex binary file formats.
What it would actually take: The stack would be built in pure Rust utilizing low-level graphics math (stroke interpolation, pressure dynamics, texture stamping) and custom encoders for PSD and KRA (ZIP containing XML/raw tile data) formats. The hard parts are bit-accurate brush dab deposition matching digital painting engines like Krita, multi-layer compositing math, and memory-efficient video generation for stroke reveals. This requires specialized domain expertise in computer graphics and digital painting raster pipelines.
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Launched 311 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
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