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The amazing vectorization machine

There is good news for all of us who have tried (in vain) to explain that you can't create a billboard using a half-inch logo from a web page. VectorMagic.com, a research project by James Diebel and Jacob Nordapart at the Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, allows you to import a low-quality pixel (bit-mapped) image and create a vector image from it. (Thanks to my friend Sheila Hanchard for sharing this.)

VectorMagic.com is a sophisticated, easy-to-use tracing tool. Some samples...

The VectorMagic.com cover...

Not 100 percent clear about the distinction between bit-mapped and vector? Here is an article I wrote to explain it...