Hi, all.
Ok.. once more. After talking to Mental, I changed the Color and Monochrome quantized multiscans a bit. In addition to the tiling of color regions side-by-side, they now can stack color regions atop each other, the same way the Brightness Multiscan works. It makes for a fairly good vector rendition of an original:
http://troi.hous.es3.titan.com/~rjamison/inkscape/files/multiscan_stack.png
I think both ways of rendering the color regions are good effects, so they will both be available from the dialog.
I could probably expand this further, but this is basically good enough for this release cycle, I think, with a tweak or two.
Bob
Bob Jamison wrote:
Here is a typical photo, quantized to 16 colors:
http://troi.hous.es3.titan.com/~rjamison/inkscape/files/multiscan.png
Same thing, but with a dark background. Where the background peeks through, it looks like strokes on the paths, so it is not unpleasant.
http://troi.hous.es3.titan.com/~rjamison/inkscape/files/multiscan_bkg.png
And, finally, here is the same thing, but instead of quantizing, this does 8 levels of brightness threshold scanning, superimposing the results from light-to-dark. Wasteful in the nodecount, but makes a very nice vector rendition of the original:
http://troi.hous.es3.titan.com/~rjamison/inkscape/files/brightness_multi.png