Originally developed as part of Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence research project, VectorMagic is a web application that traces bitmap images, converting them into line art.

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The conversions are of remarkably high quality and are extremely straightforward to produce. A Flash interface guides you through the simple steps of:

• identifying the type of image (photograph or logo)

• quality level of the source

• color pallete selection

Once the selections are made a vectorized image is produced. You are then given the option of going through a troubleshooting process to improve the image quality.

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A rasterised png version of the traced image can be downloaded free of charge. As this is now a commercial venture, vector versions can only be downloaded after paying a token.

At the moment VectorMagic is only available as a web service, though a desktop application is in development.