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Subject: Re: Pixel pro
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On Mon, 8 May 1995, Manuel Coats wrote:

> Is there a similar program smilar to Pixal pro 3D for the PC ?  I am
> looking for something that will allow me to take a digitized photo of a
> black and white logo and then convert that into a 2 or 3D object to be
> used in LW.  I've thought of just taking the digitized image, and using it
> as a displacement map on a flat mesh of polygons and then cutting that
> out in modeler, but there must be an easier way.
>
> Manny

Here's what I try to do, it doesn't work perfectly all the time, but when
it does it looks great. Alot of the work in this would be eliminated if
Modeler Imported EPS files easily...

Use Adobe Illustrator to AutoTrace the black and white scanned art.
Illustrator is by far the best for this (that I've tried), perhaps Corel
does a good job, nothing on the Amiga gives you nice clean curve segments
like Illustrator5.5.

Import the EPS into Typesmith and save it as a Postscript Type 1 Font. If
you don't have Typesmith2.5, you'll have to go the extra step of
converting the EPS to DR2D in Art Expression.

Load the Type 1 Font into Modeler and type the character that corresponds
to the EPS, usually "A". Wait awhile, on some stuff even a 40MHz '040
will thinkthinkthink for twenty minutes or more.

Darren Metcalfe              "Had this been an actual emergency,
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