#Autotrace Program
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Does anyone know, it there exists a PD or shareware program for performing
autotrace. I don't really NEED it, but it would be nice to have.
<<<Mel>>>
I am unframiler with th term AUTOTRACE. If be that you mean the
ability to turn 2d (IFF) images in to 3D objects there are a few.
DigiWorks 3D dose a nice job. (I also happen to be selling my copy
because I have ) Imagin, has the fuction bilt in. I also think there
is a program called Pixelmate (3D) or something like that. I hope
this is of some help.
Thanks for the information Brad. I am really looking for something in the
public domain, because, it is not something I need, just something I'd like
to play around with.
By AutoTrace, I mean where a 2D iff can be trace (automatically :-)), so
you end up with a tracing of the image. Has neat looking effects. The
reason I was looking is because I bought a book that I really like (the
only graphics book I found that mentions the Amiga as a graphics computer,
along with Mac & IBM). It features some Amiga artists as well. Though,
the author is oriented toward macs, he does not totally ignore the Amiga.
There's even a small section (two pages) entitled "A REMARKABLE HYBRID
COLOR COMPUTER Computer graphics isn't all Macintoshes and IBMs," devoted
to Amiga.
Anyway, all of this to say that in the book, the author gives some
examples which involve using autotracing in various Mac programs. I
am not willing to buy an entire program for one feature, I was just
hoping such a feature might be found in the PD.
Oh!… the title of the book is:
Getting Started in Computer Graphics
by Gary Olsen
published by North Light Books
I found it at Walden Books.
<<< Mel >>>
Mel, I see several folk have replied about '3D autotrace' programs, such as
Pixel3D and such…. these take a bitmap (company logo, for instance) and
convert it into something that can be used in 3D rendering programs (ie.
raytracing and such). However, I don't think that's what you had in mind,
was it?
You mentioned the Mac, so I'd suspect that you meant converting a bitmap
image (again, a company logo) and converting it to a 'structured drawing'
for use in design programs. ie. for printing and such. Is this what you
meant? If so, I'm not aware of any PD or shareware programs that do this,
but there are several commercial programs…. Professional Draw 2.0 by Gold
Disk, for instance. This will take a logo and convert it into lines and
such that you can resize, color, etc…. it's mainly a graphic design tool.
(and DTP tool)
Last, you can also change bitmaps (again, company logos, etc) into just
edges, by doing 'edge detection' in some paint programs. ADPro by ASDG
will do it; so will Image Professional by Black Belt (with tons of
options). If you're after artistic 'effects' then I'll vouch for these
spectacular effects at times!
Hope this helps.
–jp–seattle–
> I'd suspect that you meant converting a bitmap image (again, a > company
logo) and converting it to a 'structured drawing' for use in > design
programs. ie. for printing and such. Is this what you meant?
Yeah John, that was what I was trying to convey. I guess I was not clear
enough.
> you can also change bitmaps (again, company logos, etc) into just >
edges, by doing 'edge detection' in some paint programs.
None of the ones I have will do this, but perhaps if I put my mind to it, I
can experiment with masking. I will also investigate ProDraw. I thought
you had to have Ham-E in order to get Image Professional. Can that be
ordered seperately?
Thanks for all the info John. Now I can wonder off in the right direction
;-).
<<< Mel >>>
You can't order Image Professional separately, but we now have a product
called Imagemaster that is essentially Image Professional for the standard
Amiga graphics capabilities.
It doesn't require any extra hardware, just a good bit of memory to run.
Ben
> It doesn't require any extra hardware, just a good bit of memory to run.
Sounds good…How much memory (I am running with 3 megs)? Uh…also, how
much ;).
<<< Mel >>>
3 megs is a minimum system, you can run with it, but it will be tight. It's
$199.95 retail (or direct from us), and I expect the street price to be
significantly lower. Shipments have long since left for the distributors so
you should see the product at solid dealers shortly.
We shipped 100 copies on Oct 1st, then nothing for a couple of weeks… the
major bulk of the manuals were shipped to us by "slowboat", which delayed
the main shipments. That's all over now, though, so availability will be
good.
Ben
I see that Black Belt already responded re their ImageMaster program. Works
real well 🙂
Other that will do edge detection are: 1) ADPro (also in 24bits), 2)
PixMate, 3) Butcher. PixMate and Butcher will work only with regular
amiga format images. I'll sell you one if you want? Make me an offer 🙂
(fine progs, just superseded by ADPro/IP/etc)
–jp–seattle–
The autotrace has been very helpful. If you do try it out try this. convert
an image to an object (you may have to make a 2 color version of the
image). then without rescaling the object, aply the origenal image as a
map. then you can do really cool flips and moves with reflections and
shadows….
Brad Hayes
Pixel3D will take a 2D image and automatically "trace" it, converting it
into a 3D object of points and lines, suitable for use in Lightwave,
TurboSilver, Imageine, etc.
<-SJK->