I recently followed an on-line course in scalable vector graphics (SVG) and wanted to share some of my enthusiasm for the subject. SVG can be scaled up without any of the loss in quality found when zooming in on bitmap images such as the one found below. SVG files are also very small (in terms of kilobytes) and are therefore downloaded “in no time” by web browsers.

Art Deco cubes programmed in SVG

Unfortunately browser support is patchy at the moment which is why I made a bitmap image (PNG) from my original SVG file to show you. The great news is that Microsoft have promised support for SVG in the next version of their web browser (Internet Explorer 9).

If you’re interested in this kind of work there’s more to be found on my blog, including links to some of the original SVG source files I made during the course.