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Re:The engineering behind Figma's vector networks (2019) by rjkaplan on Saturday February 03, 2024 @02:20PM (#39243774)
Figma supported vector networks a few years before that thesis was written (I worked there at the time).
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Re:The engineering behind Figma's vector networks (2019) by goodmachine on Saturday February 03, 2024 @04:25PM (#39244902)
Are you sure?

Boris Dalstein first published his work on Vector Graphic Complexes (VGC) at SIGGRAPH in 2014 [1]

Figma introduced Vector Networks in 2016 [2]

[1] https://www.borisdalstein.com/research/vgc/

[2] https://www.figma.com/blog/introducing-vector-networks/

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Re:The engineering behind Figma's vector networks (2019) by wslh on Saturday February 03, 2024 @05:39PM (#39245479)
Learning too much from this thread. I tried to look at Wikipedia and it seems there is an opportunity for a page about vector networks!
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Re:The engineering behind Figma's vector networks (2019) by dfield on Sunday February 04, 2024 @01:58AM (#39248230)
CEO of Figma here. Most of the original insights around vector networks were in 2013, though we continued to polish the implementation over time. We didn't exit stealth and ship the closed beta of Figma until December 2015 which is why there isn't blog content before then.

At first glance, this thesis looks super neat! I'm excited to check it out! I don't believe I've seen it before which is surprising given the overlap.

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Re:The engineering behind Figma's vector networks (2019) by goodmachine on Sunday February 04, 2024 @07:36AM (#39249753)
Hey, thanks for chiming in! I appreciate the correction.

You and Boris seem to have identified the pain-point and got to a similar place independently

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