writing
Notes on vectorization
Notes on raster-to-SVG vectorization, structured and animateable output, determinism, and the ideas behind Spryteo.
- philosophy
The idea behind Spryteo
Raster tracers usually ask what an image looks like rather than what it is made of; Spryteo treats vectorization output as a structured document.
- output
Why structured SVG matters
Flat tracers emit disconnected path soup; Spryteo generates a nested group tree with content-hashed IDs and native geometric primitives.
- engineering
Determinism is a feature
Spryteo guarantees byte-identical SVG output for identical inputs and options, enabling reviewable git diffs, cacheable builds, and strict CI tests.
- agents
Spryteo for AI agents
The Spryteo MCP server gives AI agents local image vectorization and structural inspection tools with zero network calls and full private execution.
- privacy
Local-first by construction
Spryteo enforces privacy by architecture rather than policy, executing raster-to-SVG conversion entirely offline inside your local process or browser.