[eu-gene] Re: eu-gene Digest, Vol 27, Issue 6

[jake elliott]

really lovely piece, pall!

i also am totally enamored of the "sunset" piece from its description
- is it still active anywhere?

best,
jake

On 5/15/05, Pall Thayer <pall at fa.is> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> I just recently finished a project that does pretty much what you're
> asking. I've also made the source-code available:
> http://pallit.lhi.is/autodrawn
> 
> best r.
> Pall Thayer
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> > Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 10:37:42 -0700
> > From: Simon Gatrall <gatrall at pacbell.net>
> > Subject: Re: [eu-gene] edge recognition software
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> > 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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