primitive.nextgen

primitive.nextgen is a fun and easy-to-use application that gives you the possibility to vectorize existing image by adding shapes and controlling their aspect. It's handy for all types of users looking for software solutions to create innovative pictures, such as web designers.

After a quick setup operation that shouldn't give you any trouble, you're welcomed by a clean and intuitive interface, where you can get started by selecting the picture you want to use as baseline.

In the following step, you can tweak the number of geometric shapes to add by setting any value from 1 to 500 (the large number, the better results but slower process). As for the shape types, you can include any combination of triangles, rectangles, ellipses and smileys.

The background can be filled with a fixed or autodetected color. You can tweak the starting opacity or let primitive.nextgen do this automatically, set the computation size (in pixels, smaller is faster), specify the viewing size, choose the number of random shapes to start every iteration for, as well as enter the number of failures to take into account when stopping shape optimization (a large number means more precise results but slower task).

As soon as you hit the "Let's go!" button, the application gets busy adding the shapes to the image and asks for a saving location for the new file, along with name. During this time, you can get a preview of the output file in the main window, along with the percentage of similarity (compared to the original photo).

There's a lot which can be accomplished using just primitive shapes, with the imagination being your only limit. You can check out this gallery to convince yourself.

The app had surprisingly low impact on system performance in our tests and finished photo tweaks quickly. All aspects considered, primitive.nextgen offers a simple and straightforward solution for drawing on images with the help of geometric primitives.