CONTINUOUS line art

[steve.ledger]

Hi everyone,

Does anyone know a program or a plugin transforming a bitmap image or photo into a set of horizontal CONTINUOUS vector lines like attached example ?

I'm not altogether convinced your example shown is an image composed of vector data at all. If you have an original vector example I'd like you to post it as a vector?

However, based on ther raster version you attached, I believe a very similar effect is repeatable using PaintShopPro X2's halftone filter set to lines.
This is found under 'Artistic Effects'.

[Soquili]

Cheers Steve (Sledger).

I had forgotten that PSP's halftone could do lines

I rarely use Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop preferring to work in Xara Xtreme

The first attachment was made in PSP 8 and the second was made in Photoshop CS. Both use the halftone effect/filter and have similar but notably different look to the images.

[steve.ledger]

Bill if you convert your PSP result to monotone ( 2 colour) and save it as a gif, plop it into Xtreme and trace it - you can create a pretty clean 100% vector.

[Egg Bramhill]

A variation on a theme.

[frbonnet]

hi everyone ... nice to see the post is so challenging your creativity !

but, dear all, we aren't quite there yet ... a detail to help understanding, the goal is a "cutting" job, not a print. Meaning, no ink, no contract, no color. Just a bunch of vectors sent to a cutter ... cutting a vynil (for lettering a truck) !

CONTINUOUS lines are crucial ... otherwise, you spend days (weeks ?) choosing the vynil elements to be kept and the ones to leave sticked on the vehicle !

i attach the vector file, created in 1997 with the original, discontinued, software (it was a .ps, now imported in AI and saved in PDF for forum post)

HERE WE GO FOR ANOTHER ROUND !
Thanks in advance for your help and solutions.

[steve.ledger]

Was it you who created the example in 1997 using PhotoShop?
What is preventing you creating another now?
By continous, I take it you mean you don't want breaks otherwise you'll go mad trying to weed the vinyl?
Something like this is best *printed to vinyl* before sending to the plotter/cutter, weeding is then dead easy (weed out the white). Of course, you need to have a wide-format digital printer such as the Mimaki JV33.

Anyhow, the halftone effect as lines should do the trick, then trace with the program of your choice.

Seems you're almost there.

[frbonnet]

thanks ... a lot.

I created the original file ... but not in photoshop ... with the "tech'line" software provided with my original (old) Roland cutter ... the fact that the soft isn't available anymore (the french editor is now specialised in 3D industry modelling), the fact that the version I have is still on 2 unsable 3'5 disks, that it's a old Mac PPC version and the fact that the old used Macintosh was burried in 1999 prevents me to use it.

are you using Jasc or Corel Paint Shop Pro ? Being a macuser, I don't know those two progs.

[steve.ledger]

Corel PSP X2.

Sorry I can't help with Mac software

[frbonnet]

too bad ... I'm sure photoshop can do it ... but I can't manage ...

Thanks anyway

[frbonnet]

Hi ... went back on a PC with PPPX2 on it and tried ... great !

The only thing is : how do you guys manage to keep the lines separate (even to a minimum) ?