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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-07 18:24:48 +0000
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+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.
+