img2laser is a browser-based tool written entirely in Rust that can convert a bitmap image into a laser-ready SVG image using the sine wave line shading technique. In my original blog post, I showcased a Python notebook that performed the same task, but it was lacking in portability. I wanted to make the tool more useful for others, and img2laser is the result. Rust is a great language for deploying 100% client-side web apps because of the compiler's amazing support for WebAssembly. Once you load img2laser you could disable your internet connection and it would still work.
To build the CLI tool, simply run cargo build --bin img2laser-cli. The tool has a help message for instructions.
To run locally, install dioxus-cli with cargo install dioxus-cli and run dx serve --release. I recommend building with --release to increase the responsiveness of the web interface. A release build for uploading elsewhere can be built with dx build --release.
