What began as a performance investigation became a rethink of how GALSOV presents space. This dev diary looks at the move from a separate System View to a continuous galaxy map, the SkiaSharp foundation beneath it, and why making space feel large became part of the design.

Hi DEV! The online background removers all follow the same script. Free preview at 500 pixels, full resolution behind credits or a subscription, and your image goes through their server to get there. For product shots or anything with a person in it, that last part is the one that bothered me. CutGeek does the cutout on your machine and hands back the original resolution: * Full resolution export, same size in as out * Batch a whole folder * Alpha edge cleanup, which matters for hair and fur * No watermark, no credits, no account ## Why I built it The models that do this well are small enough to run on a laptop CPU. Once that is true, the entire subscription model for background removal is a distribution decision rather than a compute one. So the honest version of the tool is a local one. ## Tech stack * .NET 8, net8.0 * Avalonia for the UI * Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime for inference * SkiaSharp for the image pipeline and compositing SkiaSharp did more work than expected. The segmentation mask comes back at the model's input size, so you are upscaling the mask and compositing against the full size original, and getting that to not look like a paper cutout is most of the quality problem. ## Honest caveat The installer is not code signed yet, so SmartScreen may warn on first run. ## Links * Site: https://techygeekshome.info/cutgeek/ * Source: https://github.com/techygeekshome/CutGeek * Video: https://youtu.be/4sfjmieGSrc Hair against a busy background is still the hard case. If you have one it fails on, send it over.

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SkiaSharp fills the cross-platform rendering gap in .NET - a brief look at what's new in SkiaSharp 4.0 and what it enables.

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SkiaSharp fills the cross-platform rendering gap in .NET - a brief look at what's new in SkiaSharp 4.0 and what it enables.

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SkiaSharp fills the cross-platform rendering gap in .NET - a brief look at evolution, rich ecosystem and bright future of SkiaSharp.

Description In my game GnollHack, I have a specialized drawing function called DrawTileWithRadialTransparency that uses SkiaSharp to draw radial transparency for a bitmap. The function works always...

[wasm] Re-enable skiasharp WBT tests Disable Debug/AOT combination That would trigger build error, because we don't support that combination anymore Change order of native libs Put Native...

SkiaSharp is a cross-platform 2D graphics API for .NET platforms based on Google's Skia Graphics Library. It provides a comprehensive 2D API that can be used across mobile, server and desktop models to render images.

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