Possibly the Greatest Web-based Application Ever! Vector Magic!
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Loading ...I saw this on Digg a couple of weeks ago and it wasn’t working then due to the usual Digg effect. But a few days ago, I tried it and the results are frankly, brilliant.
The site is basically an online-auto tracer which converts your bitmaps and jpgs to vectors! Automatically! For those who don’t understand, it basically means you get to scale your images as big as you want without losing clarity! In a sense…It’s done by some dudes from Stanford, such a nice school eh? But the guy who destroyed my adsense account was also from Stanford, fuck him!!
I pasted the link to the #animeblogger channel and the responses ranged from "WOW OMG WTF JESUS MADE A WEBSITE" to "That’s the best site ever made. Now I can vectorise all my Shanas and blow them up to 1 million pixels!"
Do try it out. I had this problem where my Tripeman, due to it being born from a one-off joke which proved too successful, was only 500 x 500 px in its largest master copy. I passed the file through the Vectormagic and presto, I now have a godzilla-sized Tripeman which I can now print onto t-shirts and billboards!
As evidence, here it is. Problem with vectors is that there cannot be gradients, so the beautiful details on the yellow skin were lost.
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I guess I could use it for BRStick.
Rofl “beautiful details”
I think the latest version of Illustrator has a feature like this now too
Go make a Tripeman giant mask with that vectorized image. Then wear it to cosplay events. I’m sure it’ll be good advertisement for RIUVA. Better still, make everyone in RIUVA wear it. LOL
This is the greatest website ever.
Actually, I believe this website does better than Illustrator, from my own try at this. I used this picture of Byakuya.
What I got from the website
What I got from Illustrator (Using the ‘Photo High Fidelity’ setting) Of course, I’m no expert at Illustrator so I don’t know much about which settings to use, but the website sure seems to beat Illustrator.
Adobe needs to buy their software from them and put it in CS4 =D
@Chraen: no. I prefer it open-sourced, free (as in beer). You could say I’m a b***hy pirate, but hey! At least everybody doesn’t need to post up on 4chan and say: “SCREENCAP GET!” — very lame excuse to have it free —
But I can see the great amount of applications this website can make. Now, on the other hand, if Google were to be interested in this…
what abou seam carving, or content-aware editing? sounds more promising to me, although rather unsupported yet.
Problem with vectors is that there cannot be gradients
OF COURSE THERE CAN !!!
Google gradient meshes in illustrator, or so !
Hell any vector program has fucking gradients in the main toolbar , duh !
yes.
you win one internets.
TP: If you were a pirate, you’d have it free either way, isn’t it?
Gradient mesh are a pain to work with. And Illustrator’s live trace sucks as well. I’d rather trace manually.
99% of anime pictures are simple crap that vector magic does well to mimic. hand tracing will produce better result but good luck doing it in 3 minutes.