looking for some wedding ilda files

[Steve Milani]

Hi all guyz!

I should need some nice ilda files to celebrate a wedding for a friend of mine, next November (strange month for a wedding... gossip voices said the braid is pregnant...).
Anyway...

Somebody can help me?

Thanks a lot in advance

Steve

[drlava]

hmm, just drew this up (or I should say, traced it up) for you tonight, it might be appropriate (for 30k)

(click)

[Steve Milani]

Nice!
Cupido is a classic for weddings and *love stories*...

Thank you very much!

[mccarrot]

Check the pangoling show: Recipe for love.

@drlava, can you explain how you traced this cupido so nice.

When I trace bitmaps they are never this nice.

[drlava]

To trace bitmaps, I'd suggest getting comfortable with working in inkscape as you will acheive far better results than when using any automatic program.

For some bitmaps you can use the 'trace bitmap' function, but for many the best way to go is to hand-trace the details you think are important. This gives you a degree of control over line breaks and the way the frame is drawn.
Drag-drop the image to your workspace and ctrl-scale it to maintain aspect ratio
Use the 'draw freehand lines' tool (pencil) to roughly go over all of the lines you want the laser to draw.
Drag the raster image away from the background and refine your lines using simplify (Ctrl+L) just hold it down, and 'edit paths by nodes' (F2) deleting most of the nodes of each line because they are there due to mouse jerks.
Colorize the line strokes using solid colors or linear gradients (OLA doesn't currently understand radial gradients) and replace alpha gradients with gradients using black.
Save svg and tune points with Zoof's OLA

Ref:
inkskape quick-guide
OLA

[Pitts]

Hi

If you have Pangolin take a look at "This Kiss" there is a "wedding type" graphics with this show. In fact this whole show is a sitter for a wedding.

If you dont have Pangolin you may need to talk to Bill @ Pangolin to see if you can use same.

Cheers

Ray
NZ

[Zoof]

Andrew, thanks again for referencing OLA.

Would you mind sharing the SVG file with the community? The whole idea behind OLA is that the art can be shared _independent_ of scan rate or scan size. For example, people running their scanners at 24k could load the same SVG file and convert it for 24k scanning, and saving it as ilda to use it in their favorite show proggy.

(e.g., I run most my stuff at 24K, properly converted frames do not lose detail nor frame rate - I discovered that in the process of fine tuning the SVG to ILDA conversion algorithms - only the most intricate frames benefit from higher frame rates - at least on Chinese scanners)

cheers,
Matthijs