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diff --git a/src/trace/README b/src/trace/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f436aa0 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/trace/README @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ + +This directory contains code for converting bitmap images to vector images. +The subdirectories contain code for the three tracers used in Inkscape: potrace +(external dependency), autotrace, and libdepixelize (currently in src/3rdparty). + + +To do: + +* Think about conceptually changing how the tracing works: Ideally, it should + be three steps clearly separated: + 1/ Preprocessing (color reduction, blurring, background removing, image + inversion...) + 2/ Tracing the preprocessed image, using some tracing engine + 3/ Post-processing (suppressing speckles, optimizing paths...) + + The main problem is that the tracing engine sometimes *also* does 1 and 3, so + there is some discussion to have whether this can be done. + |