38C3 Lightningtalks

From Pixels to Procedures: An Open Source Design Suite for 2025
28.12.2024 , Saal GLITCH
Sprache: English

Graphite is reinventing open source design tools by combining vector and raster workflows through a node-based, procedural approach borrowed from the 3D industry. This lightning talk showcases how nondestructive editing and procedural generation are making creative tools more powerful, hackable, and fun.


Traditional design tools force creators into rigid workflows with destructive editing that limits creative exploration. Graphite takes a different approach: your artwork is a program encoded as a node-graph of render procedures.

In this lightning talk, you'll see how Graphite's current feature set enables new creative workflows like procedural pattern generation. We'll look at examples of what's possible today with our alpha release and preview upcoming features that will expand these capabilities further.

This is a brief overview of where Graphite stands as we enter 2025 — perfect for anyone interested in the future of open source creative tools, procedural art generation, or breaking free from traditional design software limitations.

I'm a cs student from Karlsruhe and have been working on the graphite open source project for about three years now.