WellI've played with livetrace and it's lots of fun, but this isn't it. My pics are done by hand in photoshop, this one included. They're not produced automagically in any way.
My observations of the results from livetrace are that they're only superficially similar to the results of the techniques I've used here. Livetrace results are not at all structurally based, they're about following colour-value contours, which are not always the best guide to form, and they're not the way humans get their primary shape and form information.
While you can deform livetrace results to change things up, the output will always be based upon a type of differentiation which is only a secondary guide to form in human vision. That's why livetrace pics are so often obviously machine-made. For really humanistic results I think you have to be guided by eye and vector by hand.
Edit: hold on, I'll put a page together that puts this into some kind of context.
(My observations of the results from livetrace are that they're only superficially similar to the results of the techniques I've used here. Livetrace results are not at all structurally based, they're about following colour-value contours, which are not always the best guide to form, and they're not the way humans get their primary shape and form information.
While you can deform livetrace results to change things up, the output will always be based upon a type of differentiation which is only a secondary guide to form in human vision. That's why livetrace pics are so often obviously machine-made. For really humanistic results I think you have to be guided by eye and vector by hand.
Edit: hold on, I'll put a page together that puts this into some kind of context.
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