VectorMagic BETA Online Vectorization
This morning, while reading one of the daily SitePoint emails that I subscribe to, my interest instantly peaked. A Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Laboratory research project by James Diebel and Jacob Norda has resulted in a free online application called VectorMagic which converts raster images to vector images in a far superior way than has previously been achieved by Adobe or Corel.
That’s no mean feat considering the money Adobe and Corel must have thrown at the problem over the years.
Some statistics (below) ripped straight from the VectorMagic comparison page show that the difference between the input bitmap and the re-rasterized vector result is 100% for VectorMagic, 215% for Corel and 255% for Adobe. While colour identification errors are 6% for VectorMagic, 66% for Corel and 50% for Adobe.
Similarly, and these comparison images again are ripped straight from the VectorMagic comparison page, VectorMagic shows dramatic improvement over the output Corel and Adobe vectors. To get the full justice of what I’m saying you should go to VectorMagic and compare the output for yourselves.
I’m impressed and hope this becomes a standalone application on my desktop sometime soon. Awesome work. Input for the application are jpg, gif, png, bmp and tiff. Output are eps, svg and png.
