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- relaxeder, on 04/17/2009, -2/+101VectorMagic saved my marriage and my job!
- beelz, on 11/12/2007, -1/+46cool that they made it free to anyone. but i feel that Illustrator's live trace has more control but its not free.. So thank you Stanford
- JohnnyBoy117, on 11/12/2007, -1/+43Oh no...we broke Stanford.
- rheaume, on 11/12/2007, -0/+29I want a standalone app :(
- flatlinebb, on 11/14/2007, -0/+28Next project - break Google by searching for 'google'.
- gfindlay, on 11/10/2007, -2/+21Bookmarked for later when the service isn't overloaded by Digg users
- kaffein, on 11/10/2007, -6/+24http://potrace.sourceforge.net/ is a nice command line based converter as well...
- LiveWire530, on 11/10/2007, -1/+19? WTF
- lucidguru, on 11/10/2007, -0/+18Oh nice... now I gotta find that eye chart with the girls on it that was dugg a few days ago.
- spyres, on 10/27/2007, -0/+17Here you go. http://www.inkscape.org/
- TNeloms, on 11/12/2007, -6/+22Wow, this things work really well on all my logos. Good job!
- mmhill, on 11/10/2007, -1/+15You're original is just too low quality. It's called VectorMagic, not VectorMiracle!
- zarand, on 11/14/2007, -1/+12Not to sound like an elitist, but In my experience, LiveTrace is almost completely unusable for professional application and produces a sloppy, obviously amateur result at best.
- opticsnake, on 11/09/2007, -0/+10I agree. Or this could be a great open-source tool to add to the Gimp.
- surfing, on 11/10/2007, -0/+10I'll do it for $5
- zeroMPHfallover, on 11/02/2007, -0/+9Yeah, seriously. This would come in EXTREMELY handy at work...
- branndon, on 11/14/2007, -0/+9Adobe may have more control, but from the samples they give, this has superior results.
- Marcateyou, on 11/09/2007, -1/+9Haha down for maintenance, or down because digg effect?
- Kazrog, on 11/15/2007, -0/+8Incredible, also amazing that it's free. I would pay $200 or more for boxed software that's this good. I'd love a Mac OS X native version. Totally blows away Illustrator on all the logos I tested (jpegs, etc.) Clients are always supplying crappy jpeg logos and it drives me nuts - now I have a solution! Best web app since Google Maps.
- karel747, on 11/12/2007, -1/+8Comment plagiarism? Lame.
- Kajico, on 10/27/2007, -1/+8I actually want to digg you up. This actually helps me more than the online one. Batch conversions.
- kaffein, on 10/26/2007, -0/+6But after watching the video (since the site is being reamed atm) I like this web tool better. :D
- EtherGnat, on 11/12/2007, -2/+8"What's a pagina?"
It's where you vut your venis. - dancegruv, on 11/10/2007, -0/+6Digg effect. "sorry we cant handle digg traffic at the moment, please try back when everyone is asleep!"
- soil, on 11/15/2007, -0/+6this would be great to mashup with OCR and scanning!
- hugoh, on 11/15/2007, -6/+12This is superb! I've struggled with the results from Corel for many years. Thank you, thank you!
- bradsucks, on 10/30/2007, -3/+9Very nice. Awesome for getting bitmaps onto shirts.
- newJxE, on 11/12/2007, -6/+11It's not any better than the Illustrator version and it's a lot slower, but it's a lot easier to use and it's free.
- mmhill, on 11/12/2007, -1/+6Here are links that work:
Inkscape: http://tinyurl.com/33xzrm
VectorMagic: http://tinyurl.com/3xa7xl - Blueshrike, on 11/12/2007, -1/+6.... and this?
- insub2, on 10/27/2007, -0/+5has anyone compared this to Inkscape? ...i'll do it later but i have no time right now.
- karel747, on 10/27/2007, -0/+5Spanish for "page".
- themoosejuice, on 11/10/2007, -0/+4Sure. $10 bucks
- hoshizakistar, on 10/27/2007, -0/+4did somebody try and auto-trace the stanford logo? I hear that breaks the app.
- Stephen1424, on 10/27/2007, -2/+6can you say Digg Effect ?
- wendelgee2, on 11/04/2007, -3/+7nope. if you could race a car by remote over the internet you wouldn't think that was awesome?
- mmhill, on 11/10/2007, -2/+6Inkscape is a complete vector graphics editor with capabilities similar to Illustrator. VectorMagic just does vectorization, a functionality also included in these packages. But, for that specific function VectorMagic blows both of these programs away. See for yourself:
Inkscape vectorization:
http://confluence.concord.org/display/CCTR/Tracing ...
VectorMagic on the same image:
http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/vctr/vctr_flex?g=1 ... - MackDiesel2010, on 10/27/2007, -1/+4What's a pagina?
- opticsnake, on 10/27/2007, -0/+3I would try that one again at the high detail setting. You may have had a logo that was too pixelated as well.
- varungp, on 11/10/2007, -4/+7The results are amazing!
- spyres, on 10/27/2007, -2/+5It's not as good as inkscapes built in functionality. Not by a long shot.
- Nick2632, on 10/27/2007, -0/+3Digg Effect
- geekoid, on 11/12/2007, -0/+3The quality compared to Illustrator is superior. This application is far smarter at working out nuances of bitmaps even when the bitmaps are small. Illustrator only works well with higher resolution samples, and the quality is nowhere near as good as this can produce in terms of actual vector polygons. I performed a test on a complex bitmap (a photo), and Illustrator created 23,000 polygons. This app created 4000, and it looked cleaner and smoother. Illustrator also took far longer to create the trace.
- Zarthia, on 11/11/2007, -0/+2so get a gamepad and a racing game
- hoshizakistar, on 10/29/2007, -2/+4not any better? easier to use and free sounds better to me.
- Atomic1fire, on 11/11/2007, -0/+2or get nitro and jump ramps
- unclejimbo88, on 10/27/2007, -0/+2You can't do much with a picture like that....
- krets, on 10/27/2007, -1/+3They made the same typo twice. I was kind of wondering what a "start" was too to tell you the truth.
- phaed, on 10/27/2007, -0/+2Its down damit. Half way though my image too.
- parsreg, on 11/08/2007, -3/+5keep up the good work :-)
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