15 Sep
2004
15 Sep
'04
11 p.m.
A few weeks ago, at the suggestion of one of our fine users, I added a Potrace image-to-vector tracing engine to Inkscape. Initially, it just traced the image according to a hardcoded brightness threshold. Later I added a threshold adjustment.
Today, there is a new toy, "Canny Edge Detection", also sometimes called "optimal edge detection." This should help with the tracing of more subtly colored images, and not just by simple brightness. Check it out:
http://troi.hous.es3.titan.com/~rjamison/inkscape/files/potrace.png
Play with it, break it, etc. Have fun.
BTW: Here is the kind of image that 'pov-out' export can make. Our lovely logo, Simpson's-3D style:
http://troi.hous.es3.titan.com/~rjamison/inkscape/files/ispov.png
Bob