>> If that's your goal, then sure, that could work. It probably requires
>> more effort than just an automatic trace program though.
>
>    There are Photoshop (and Gimp) filters that can do that to a photo.
> Trivial to convert to SVG afterwards.

Yeah, that's more the kind of thing I'm thinking...

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On 22/09/2010 01:13 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:

> Just like closed-source software works best with other closed-source
> software.  Saving frequently was also a tactic I used when I was tied to
> the Microsoft closed-source mafia. ;-)

I especially love the way that MS Word is specifically designed to crash 
most often WHILE SAVING YOUR WORK!

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And lo On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:12:25 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did  
spake thusly:

> http://burningbird.net/svg/garden5.svg
>
> This may, uh, *melt* your web browser. (I suggest you don't try "view  
> source" either...)

Try http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/ in a WebKit broswer such as  
Chrome or Safari and mouse over the birds.

Then take a look at the code source at  
http://cdn.thewildernessdowntown.com/js/main-compressed.js :-)

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And lo On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:42:07 +0100, Jim Henderson  
<nos### [at] nospamcom> did spake thusly:

> On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:12:25 +0100, Invisible wrote:
>
>> http://burningbird.net/svg/garden5.svg
>>
>> This may, uh, *melt* your web browser. (I suggest you don't try "view
>> source" either...)
>
> Loaded just fine here in Chrome.  Nice pic. :-)

Seems to act as a good test of SVG support - it took 50+ seconds to load  
in Opera, about 15 in Firefox and about 10 in Chrome, but it seemed to not  
want to display properly in the latter until it had finished downloading.

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>> This may, uh, *melt* your web browser.
>
> Try http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/ in a WebKit broswer such as
> Chrome or Safari and mouse over the birds.

I've already tried this. I can't figure out what the hell the point of 
it is... It just plays a looping video of somebody running down a street 
and shows a few birds flapping. (While at the same time bringing the 
entire PC to its knees for some reason.) What am I missing?

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And lo On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:30:14 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did  
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>>> This may, uh, *melt* your web browser.
>>
>> Try http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/ in a WebKit broswer such as
>> Chrome or Safari and mouse over the birds.
>
> I've already tried this. I can't figure out what the hell the point of  
> it is... It just plays a looping video of somebody running down a street  
> and shows a few birds flapping. (While at the same time bringing the  
> entire PC to its knees for some reason.) What am I missing?

I don't see the looping video, but the birds scatter from the cursor.

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>>> Try http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/ in a WebKit broswer such as
>>> Chrome or Safari and mouse over the birds.
>>
>> I've already tried this. I can't figure out what the hell the point of
>> it is... It just plays a looping video of somebody running down a
>> street and shows a few birds flapping. (While at the same time
>> bringing the entire PC to its knees for some reason.) What am I missing?
>
> I don't see the looping video, but the birds scatter from the cursor.

Oh, right. I couldn't tell; my PC was too busy dying. (Perhaps the VM I 
was running this under has insufficient RAM?) All I know is that Flash 
was doing that 10 years ago. I still don't see what all the fuss is about.

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And lo On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:01:30 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did  
spake thusly:

>>>> Try http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/ in a WebKit broswer such as
>>>> Chrome or Safari and mouse over the birds.
>>>
>>> I've already tried this. I can't figure out what the hell the point of
>>> it is... It just plays a looping video of somebody running down a
>>> street and shows a few birds flapping. (While at the same time
>>> bringing the entire PC to its knees for some reason.) What am I  
>>> missing?
>>
>> I don't see the looping video, but the birds scatter from the cursor.
>
> Oh, right. I couldn't tell; my PC was too busy dying. (Perhaps the VM I  
> was running this under has insufficient RAM?) All I know is that Flash  
> was doing that 10 years ago. I still don't see what all the fuss is  
> about.

Because it's using the HTML5 canvas with Javascript so no need for Flash;  
bye-bye plugins and the "You need to download the latest version of Flash"

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>> Oh, right. I couldn't tell; my PC was too busy dying. (Perhaps the VM
>> I was running this under has insufficient RAM?) All I know is that
>> Flash was doing that 10 years ago. I still don't see what all the fuss
>> is about.
>
> Because it's using the HTML5 canvas with Javascript so no need for
> Flash; bye-bye plugins and the "You need to download the latest version
> of Flash"

Right, but... why does it run at a crawl and utterly cripple the 
browser? (In the end, I couldn't actually terminate Chrome; I just 
terminated the entire VM - the equivalent of a hard shutdown.)

I'm all for new technology, but this one doesn't seem to enable you to 
do anything interesting, and requires absurd amounts of computer power 
to do what little it does.

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Invisible escreveu:
> On 22/09/2010 01:13 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> 
>> Just like closed-source software works best with other closed-source
>> software.  Saving frequently was also a tactic I used when I was tied to
>> the Microsoft closed-source mafia. ;-)
> 
> I especially love the way that MS Word is specifically designed to crash 
> most often WHILE SAVING YOUR WORK!

strangely enough, never experienced a MSOff crash, let alone while 
saving.  OTOH, I obviously don't use it at home and use it only very 
rarely at work, mostly to read other people's works.

Best use I've done so far for an office suite is my personal accounting 
spreadsheet in OpenOffice.

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