Show HN: Luminous – fast image viewer in Rust, SAM 3 and CLIP support

Category: devtools

Tags: image-viewer, rust, ai, plugin-system, cross-platform

Score: 5.8/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 6, Documentation: 6, Utility: 6)

Luminous is a cross-platform image viewer and editor built in Rust with a plugin system that supports advanced features like CLIP-based semantic search and SAM 2/3 interactive segmentation. It stands out for combining high-performance image handling with AI-powered plugins in a single extensible tool.

Target audience: backend devs, data engineers, ai-ml enthusiasts

Repository: https://github.com/jaroslavszkandera/luminous · Rust · MIT · 7 stars

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