SVGR vs specimen · renato.design

SVGR converts your images into clean, scalable SVG vector graphics. Whether you need to vectorize logos, designs, illustrations, or even photos, SVGR delivers high-quality results with fine-grained control over the conversion process. POWERFUL CONVERSION • Convert PNG, JPEG, WebP, BMP, and GIF images to SVG • Adjustable quality from fast previews to detailed traces • Transparent background support for logos and icons • OCR text recognition preserves text as editable paths • Path merging for optimized, smaller SVG files SMART IMAGE TYPE DETECTION • Auto mode analyzes your image and picks the best settings • Photo mode optimized for photographs and gradients • Design mode optimized for logos, icons, and flat graphics FLEXIBLE EXPORT • Save as SVG for web, print, or further editing • Export as PDF for documents and presentations • Share directly from the app on mobile DEEP LINK INTEGRATION • Open images directly from other apps via URL scheme CROSS-PLATFORM • Works on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and web • Consistent experience across all your devices • Sync your account across platforms FREE • No subscriptions — completely free MORE FEATURES • Drag and drop images on desktop (macOS/web) • Responsive layout adapts to portrait and landscape • Dark mode support • 16 language options • Native menu bar integration on macOS SVGR is built for designers, developers, and anyone who needs scalable vector graphics from raster images.

specimen is a 3D scanning app for iPhone that treats the captured object as a specimen — worth describing, worth situating, worth demystifying. You point the phone at a thing. You walk around it. You flip it over. You capture the bottom. The app produces a mesh you can open in Rhino, Blender, or any 3D software. Witness describes what was captured in clinical language. A registrar's voice. Surface reads as glazed ceramic. Bottom not captured. Approximately fourteen centimeters across. Afterwords is six voices from the dead. Sōetsu Yanagi speaks on the beauty of humble objects. Walter Benjamin speaks on what scanning itself is — what aura means when an object is captured. D'Arcy Thompson speaks on the forces that made the form. Roland Barthes speaks on the detail that pierces the viewer. George Kubler speaks on where this object sits in its class. Vilém Flusser speaks on the gesture of capture. Concordance names the mechanism, not the marketing term. Light detection and ranging. Infrared pulses. Time of flight. Structured light. Photogrammetry. Triangulation. Exports in millimeters, Z-up — the Rhino-default design-studio convention. Switchable to inches for the truly stubborn or architects among you. Share a capture package as a .zip and AirDrop it to a Mac running the free specimen Companion for full-detail reconstruction Apple only exposes on macOS. Requirements: iPhone with LiDAR (iPhone 12 Pro or later Pro / Pro Max). Apple Intelligence–capable device if you want the voices to speak on-device; the app falls back cleanly otherwise. No cloud. No account. No credits. No subscription. Built for students and makers as a tool for contemplative work. specimen is part of renato.design, a creative research practice authored through Iterative LLM Co-Authorship — a collaboration between Phil Renato and Claude (Anthropic). Released as a research artifact, not commercial software. See the disclaimer in Settings → About for details.