[magick-users] Convert photos for laser engraving?

[Anthony Thyssen]

Kent on  wrote...
| Hi folks --
| 
| I have a client who wants software to convert photo images into a 
| form that can be laser-engraved into metal or wood.  I suppose this 
| will involve edge detection, and/or a way to translate the gray scale 
| into patterns of lines that give the impression of varying 
| shades.  The client has specified that the resulting files must be 1 
| bit per pixel.  Can IM & MagickWand do this?  Does anyone have 
| recommendations on what sort of operations to use?
| 
One o fthe bit map formats will do one bit per pixel.

XBM or PBM  are basic examples.


  Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer )    <A.Thyssen at griffith.edu.au>
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