Jsony and pixie are awesome.
Is there any declarative way to turn json into pixie drawings?
I've started to put together an extremely rudimentary way to draw boxes specified in json, with an easy way to copy/repeat things by using references. But I'm guessing something like that has already been done. OTOH, pixie allows arbitrary complexity and layering of things, which may not map well to a declarative thing like json.
{"shapes": [
{"rect": {
"name": "nikorect",
"lineWidth": 5,
"lineColor": "0xffcc00",
"pos": {"x": 10, "y": 20},
"size": {"w": 75, "h": 25}}},
{"rect": {
"name": "helenarect",
"lineWidth": 99,
"lineColor": "Pink",
"pos": {"x": 20, "y": 30},
"size": {"w": 76, "h": 27}}},
{"instance": {
"name": "mamarect",
"nameRef": "nikorect",
"pos": {"x":3, "y": 30}}},
{"instance": {
"name": "dadarect",
"nameRef": "helenarect",
"pos": {"x":5, "y": 35}}}
]
}thanks
There's something called SVG. As much hate as XML gets some bits like SVG are pretty nice. ;)
Though if you really want JSON there's Lottie format. It's for animation but a subset is for vectors and layering.
Thanks, I'm aware svg can be encoded in pixie, but I haven't delved into it too much. I'll take a look at that and lottie.
The end goal of all this if I don't get distracted is being able to specify nested box diagrams with repeated elements, aligned edges, and graph edges between them. Visio, other drawing tools, and other technical diagraming tools don't seem to do what I want.