A browser-based vector animation engine rendering animated objects
Details
- External ID
- 49066321
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- A browser-based vector animation engine rendering animated objects
- Website domain
- vercel.app
- Launched
- July 27, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.505973715651135
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hi HN,I've been working on ThorVG, an open-source vector graphics engine. It started as a lightweight SVG renderer and has gradually evolved into a rendering engine supporting SVG, Lottie, and modern GPU backends.This demo showcases the latest ThorVG 1.1 running entirely in the browser.Try it here: https://thorvg-janitor.vercel.appThorVG v1.1: https://www.thorvg.org/post/thorvg-v1-1-rising-the-standard
Enrichment
- Theme
- creative coding and visual experiments
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- browser-based vector animation engine
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No ThorVG is a high-performance, low-level vector graphics and animation engine (supporting Lottie, SVG, tessellation, and GPU backends) compiled to WebAssembly, requiring deep computer graphics engineering.
What it would actually take: Building such an engine requires C++ or Rust compiled via Emscripten to WebAssembly with WebGL/WebGPU backends. The hard parts include vector path rasterization, Bézier curve tessellation, scene-graph hierarchical transformations, and complex animation playback (such as the full Lottie specification). This demands specialized graphics programming expertise in matrix maths, anti-aliasing algorithms, and hardware acceleration shaders.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Launched 266 days after the earliest competitor.
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