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A 480 px JPG logo: 8,796 nodes from a default auto-trace, 338 after clean-up

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PRIMARYSYSTEMRestorationNov 6

This is a made-up logo we use for testing. It was saved as a 480 px wide JPG at quality 35, which is about what a customer sends when they screenshot their own website.

The JPG, a default auto-trace and the cleaned-up vector side by side
Left: the JPG. Middle: a default auto-trace (vtracer 0.6.15, default settings). Right: our clean-up. Both vectors are 100 mm wide.
Default auto-traceClean-up
Shapes81831
Nodes8,796338
Open paths00
True arcs0109

Most of the extra nodes come from compression noise along the edges. Every small wobble turns into its own curve, and a laser or CNC controller slows down at each one.

Close-up of the node points on one letter
One letter up close: 317 nodes in the auto-trace, 25 after clean-up.

The round parts come back as real arcs instead of many short curves, so a circle stays a circle when it is scaled or cut.

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