Vector Magic is an online, Flash-powered tool designed to convert bitmaps to vectors. However, it’s taken the input of the Stanford geeks to finally nail the second issue. LiveTrace now does a slick job at cookie-cutting its art into a single-layered, interlocking collection of vectors. With Creative Suite 2, Adobe mostly eliminated the first issue. This was fine if you were looking for a rough-cut, medieval look, but if not… well… The algorithms used to produce the vector shapes invariably impose the same blocky, woodcut effect on all artwork. The vector artwork produced was always spectacularly chaotic, inefficient and tangled - the design equivalent of spaghetti code -Īnd generally took much longer to clean up than it would have taken to draw the artwork from scratch.
How often have I put the practice to work? Not often. In fact, I remember spending hours experimenting with Streamline’s many dials and sliders trying to get the perfect result back in the day.
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Whatever you call it - Autotrace, Live Trace, PowerTRACE - the ability to convert bitmap images into vector artwork software has been around since at least Adobe
Lock ’em in a room with a computer, a case of Red Bull, and two bags of Skittles, and they’ll invent Google before lunch, then go on to solve one of the most intractable problems of graphic design software in the afternoon.
The following is republished from the Design View #39.Īh, you’ve got to love those wonderful geeks at Stanford.
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