Vectorize is a free, open source image tracing plug-in for Rhino.
The inspiration for Vectorize comes from Gérard Bouteau, a long time Rhino user, trainer, and programmer, who developed a plug-in named Trace for Rhino 6. Unfortunately for all of us, Gérard passed away unexpectedly in the spring of 2020. Because of this untimely passing, he was never able to port his popular plug-in to Rhino 7 and beyond.
Vectorize is based off the famous Potrace by Peter Selinger, whose application transforms a bitmap into a soft, scalable image made up of vectors. The plug-in uses a C# translation named CsPotrace written by Wolfgang Nagl.
The following tool is required to build Vectorize :
- Microsoft Visual Studio. Visual Studio comes in three editions: Community (free), Professional, and Enterprise. All of these editions will work.
Note, the solution uses the RhinoCommon package available on NuGet.
- Clone the repository. At a command prompt, enter the following command:
git clone https://github.com/dalefugier/Vectorize
- Open the
Vectorize.slnsolution file in Visual Studio. - Press F7, or click Build > Build Solution to build the solution.
Copyright (C) 2020-2021 Dale Fugier
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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