Photograph to Animation Example
The following is a step by step example of
how to convert a photograph into a vector
file that can be animated.
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Step I:
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Get a photograph. For
this example, we will use the
following picture of a bee.
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Photo Courtesy of Tom Severino
BEE.png
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Step II:
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Use Pac-n-Zoom® to
segment the image with a color difference
of 10 to get the following picture.
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Step III:
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You are now ready to use
BMP2SVG to
convert to vector. In this example,
we will use only
polylines to
define the borders.
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BMP2SVG -spline 25000 -output-file bee_seg-10.svg bee_seg-10.bmp
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Step IV:
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You can now load
bee_seg-10.svg into your animation engine
or drawing program, and your ready to
render your vector. The following screen
shot is from
Inkscape.
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