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    Hey check out what i did with po trace..

    just ran across this software..
    its kinda nice

    i just was messing around and did this...

    looks like a promising tool
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    here is another, i kind of got the process down...

    prety easy between potrace, corel suite, and laserboy... i can make cool frames in like 5 min

    the breakdancer one has a bunch of cool frames...
    so does the dance one
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    monkey looks great so does the others!

    good work!
    -Josh

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    my question is do they scan....

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    i would gladly try if my projector wasnt down at the moment
    -Josh

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    Quote Originally Posted by keeperx View Post
    my question is do they scan....
    Well..... If a frame has literally tens of thousands of points in it, not very well.

    This is why I like to trace pictures myself instead of letting a process do it for me!

    James.

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    so i need to make em less points....
    these may be a little better, check em out
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    and here are the dancers optimized with less points
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    You definitely have the right idea!

    I would say this though...

    When your tracer follows around a curve, it puts in TONS of points; which makes a great looking curve, but slows the scanners down to a crawl.

    Scanners automatically MAKE a curve out of a few well placed points.

    If you use LaserBoy to render DXF, you can preset the arc step (in degrees). So when it needs to render a circle or ellipse, it knows how to break it up into discrete, equal-angle points.

    [Tab] system settings
    option '6' DXF arc step in degrees

    This would also apply to splines, if I knew the math to render them!

    James.

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    ok if that is set to 6.00 and i "h,k" my art, am i OK?

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