[eu-gene] edge recognition software

[Simon Gatrall]

At 2:21 PM -0400 5/13/05, Greg Smith wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I am currently working on a drawing project that will use 
>photography as a starting point for generative drawing.  I need a 
>means to convert photographs into vector information. Essentially, I 
>need to take numerous pictures/film stills etc. and through some 
>type of edge recognition software translate them into .dwg format. 
>Any suggestions on a tool that could help me with this?
>I'd rather not have to set the images up as underlays in autocad or 
>rhino and draft over top of them.

Flash and Illustrator both have decent "autotrace" capabilities.  You 
can tweak parameters which control how many colors to break up the 
image into, and how tightly to follow the contours.
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Simon Gatrall
gatrall at pacbell.net