Feature: centerline tracing
Zireael07 opened this issue · comments
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Hi,
Can you please give me some details on your idea? Do you mean starting the shape at the approx. top-center?
No, literally tracing lines by their center. What this program does https://autotrace.sourceforge.net (Inkscape uses it under the hood when you tick the centerline option in Trace Bitmap)
I thought about this and checked Autotrace. It's a good idea, so I added it to the Ideas for improvement list.
However, ImageTracer uses a different algorithm, which can't be easily upgraded to support centerline tracing. I estimate it would take minimum 2x the current size and complexity, because a new algorithm is needed after layer separation. Sadly I don't have the time to work on this now.
Fine, that's understandable. (I didn't check the algorithms themselves, tbh)