The Cynic Gazette » raster http://www.cynicgazette.com Web Design, Skepticism, Photography and Social Comment Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:31:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Vector Magic http://www.cynicgazette.com/2007/11/09/vector-magic/ http://www.cynicgazette.com/2007/11/09/vector-magic/#comments Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:13:40 +0000 Joisey Mike http://www.cynicgazette.com/?p=121 A bunch of guys at Stanford who’re wearing their smartypants developed Vector Magic (http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/), a tool that vectorizes raster images. Looks like it does great work with logos, and it seems to make images decent, but not perfect. This could be a good timesaved, or maybe a mroe effective way to posterize photography. I think it’s worth a look, and it’s about as bookmarkable as it gets.

For those of us who occasionally have to zip things between Flash, Photoshop and Illustrator, this could be the bee’s knees. Well, what do you know, I happen to have two images just sitting on my desktop… so, hey, lets test the motherfucker!

On Medium:

Vector Magic test - Shadow Closeup

Vector Magic test - Shadow

On High:

Vector Magic test - Borat Closeup

Vector Magic test - Borat

All in all, I’m impressed. Trying to detect edges and retrace in illustrator is been the bane of a lot of designers’ existances. I know I really could have used this a few years ago for something that took 2 days to trace with Illustrator. Live and learn.

I think next I’m going to run some Sinfest strips through it to blow up and print out :D

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