People might need a dead‑simple way to turn images into cut‑ready stained glass patterns

I keep seeing the same kind of post in craft forums and local maker groups — someone has a photo of their grandmother’s window, or a rough sketch of a lamp they want to build, and they’re stuck. They can picture the final piece, but getting from that mental image (or a JPEG) to an actual stencil they can cut is where everything grinds to a halt.

The friction isn’t the artistic idea. It’s the translation layer: taking a design and manually breaking it into clean, separate vector shapes that work with real glass — closed paths, sensible gaps, every piece accounted for. Most hobbyists and small‑scale artisans don’t have the graphic design background or vectorization chops to do that smoothly, and the software that does it well tends to be expensive, complex, or built for entirely different industries.

What seems to be missing is a lightweight, focused idea:
A simple web‑based tool that lets someone upload an image (or describe what they want in a prompt), and then automatically generates a layered, editable SVG with each glass region isolated as its own cut‑ready path. Not a full design suite. No steep learning curve. Just a path from “I have this picture” to “I can take this file to my cutter.” If the community side is folded in — a small library where people can share and lightly remix templates — it becomes even more useful for beginners who want a starting point before doing their own thing.