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Re: One-line drawings

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Didn't know about autotrace. I was supposing it would just trace the bitmap into a compound path, sort of what like potrace does, but the animation suggests it traces into a single path - which is absolutely great, as afterwards you can adjust the stroke width, linecaps and more thingies. Amazing!

Re: One-line drawings

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One line drawings? Open the website and very first picture is multiple lines, same goes at least for dove and didn't study others. False advertising.

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This would be a great way to build those videos that draw a picture. Currently done by hand.

You might find excalidraw-animate[0] easier for that. [0] https://github.com/dai-shi/excalidraw-animate

Thanks.

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Reminds me of Fourier Series [1] although this just works for closed curves AFAIK. [1] https://youtu.be/r6sGWTCMz2k

For an “open curve” (parametric function from a segment) the analogous tool is the Chebyshev series.

https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen/ATAP/ATAPfirst6chapt...

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