Thanks, that's a lovely analogy and I'm excited to listen to that podcast.
I think the general idea of converting things from discrete and implementation-motivated representations to higher-level abstract descriptions (bitmaps to vectors, in your example) is great. It's actually something I'm very interested in, since the higher-level representations are usually much easier to do interesting transformations to. (Another example is going from meshes to SDFs for 3D models.)
I think the general idea of converting things from discrete and implementation-motivated representations to higher-level abstract descriptions (bitmaps to vectors, in your example) is great. It's actually something I'm very interested in, since the higher-level representations are usually much easier to do interesting transformations to. (Another example is going from meshes to SDFs for 3D models.)
You might get a kick out of the "responsive pixel art" HN post from 2015 which implements this idea in a unique way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11253649