Few days back, i was posting a screencast on
How to Enlarge Vector Picture Easily Without Losing Quality, this is one way to be able to enlarge an image
IF you DONT have the original vector image !
Today when i go through my feed,
Simon Willison posted an
AWESOME tool to
CONVERT ANY IMAGE TO VECTOR ! Brilliant ! And you know what ?!
It's Flash ! Flex to be precise ;)
Vector Magic is the result of a Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Laboratory research project by James Diebel and Jacob Norda.
Vector Magic is capable of tracing images and convert to a vector file, and with a PRECISE results ! Just upload your image and Vector Image will do the converting :D
I will try to give a few Highlights of what this Vector Magic is capable of (it's still even in BETA and am already very impressed)
1. Image Classification
First thing after you upload a picture if will automagically detect your picture's type.
Currently they still only have 2 types, photograph and logo. This is not 100% accurate, so be sure to double-check, after it do the detection. But it should get the choice right most of the time ;)
2. Bookmark !
This simple information is brilliant ! If you had big picture to vectorize, and you can't even see the progress bar running, usually you leave the page open. But not anymore ! Just hit
Ctrl-D and do somethin' else with your browser ;P
3. Zoom and Swap Your View !
After you get the result, the only thing you can do to check whether this Vector Magic did the job right or not, is to ZOOM in the result ;) Because you can see the quality of the vector more accurately if you can ZOOM in ;) And of course you have to compare it with the original image. And the Bitmap button did was a useful button ! Just a click, then you can view the original image :D NICE !
4. Geeky Enough ? 
If you're curious, then play around ;)
5. Still Not Enough ?
Learn more about Vector Magic, they have a very descriptive screencast ;)
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The result is very nice :) maybe because the original image is nice too :P It might not look very good here (because i scale-down the image) Try to see the real size result by clicking me :D
Bottom words, you should really
give Vector Magic a try ;)
[via:
Simon Willison's Weblog]
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