On: The engineering behind Figma's vector networks (20...

[matroid]

It looks like Vector Networks is based on Boris Dalstein's work (https://www.borisdalstein.com/research/phd). He even has a startup (VGC) for Vector Graphic Editing tool based on these concepts. It is pretty cool!

P.S. I have no affiliation with his work, although I did contribute 10$ to his Kickstarter Campaign back in the day.

[rjkaplan → matroid]

Figma supported vector networks a few years before that thesis was written (I worked there at the time).

[goodmachine → rjkaplan]

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/

[dfield → goodmachine]

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.

[goodmachine → dfield]

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

[wslh → goodmachine]

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!