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About the cleaning up phase: the author cleaned up the bitmaps before the vectorizing stage, and that included separating lines.
In my experience it's a little bit easier to clean the vectorized results by removing unwanted points, because those are easier to see than line connections that may or may not pose a problem later. (But to each their own.)
Excellent project, congrats! About the cleaning up phase: the author cleaned up the bitmaps before the vectorizing stage, and that included separating lines. In my experience it's a little bit easier to clean the vectorized results by removing unwanted points, because those are easier to see than line connections that may or may not pose a problem later. (But to each their own.)
Looks like a fun project. I would love to get into pen plotting someday. Have to say the text bothers and intrigues me… digital fonts that try to look like handwriting are already in the uncanny valley, and then you loop it back into physical media with a pen plotter. It could almost be an art project in its own right, exploring layers of going back and forth between physical and digital media to produce a seemingly…
Looks like a fun project. I would love to get into pen plotting someday. Have to say the text bothers and intrigues me… digital fonts that try to look like handwriting are already in the uncanny valley, and then you loop it back into physical media with a pen plotter. It could almost be an art project in its own right, exploring layers of going back and forth between physical and digital media to produce a seemingly…
I remember once seeing a presentation about someone making extensive use of ligatures to create a very realistic hand writing effect. I think it was that an "e", for example, would always look different depending on the preceding letter, even though it was not a real ligature case per say. It's a huge amount of work but I remember the results being very convincing.
Love it - I wonder if you could create a animation book this way cheaply, see a moving image as you flip through it
Love it - I wonder if you could create a animation book this way cheaply, see a moving image as you flip through it
I have an idea for somewhat different flip animation, stay tuned :)
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I remember once seeing a presentation about someone making extensive use of ligatures to create a very realistic hand writing effect. I think it was that an "e", for example, would always look different depending on the preceding letter, even though it was not a real ligature case per say. It's a huge amount of work but I remember the results being very convincing.
Amy Goodchild has done some incredible work in this vein, involving pen plotters even. https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog/cursive-handwriting-in-jav...
Love it - I wonder if you could create a animation book this way cheaply, see a moving image as you flip through it
You're in luck: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42918902
Combining the two ideas, "hand drawn" animation flip books could be neat. Start with a video, convert frames to a drawable vector, draw each frame with a pen plotter, assemble the flip book