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Earlier comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2601347 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2601347 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2578706 http://new
by imurray 15y ago
Earlier comments:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2601347 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2601347
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2578706 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2578706
Some of the previous discussion isn't great (squabbling about dupes, not being able to download the pdf). A common comment was "hasn't this been done before". Many existing tools output higher-res bitmaps, this tool outputs vector images. They did run comparisons to a variety of algorithms, including potrace, which also generates vectors.
- petercooper 15y agoWhen we get stories like this that get repeated multiple times on Hacker News (a few others spring to mind recently) it's a minor annoyance if you're an ardent HN reader but a significant indicator of what HN readers really find interesting on the whole since it's getting voted up each time by a different subset of users who hadn't seen it before. Things involving novel presentations of algorithms and well presented 'undry' academic papers seem to do very well in this regard..