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What is Vector Art?
In digital art there are two layer formats: raster and vector. Raster formats are based in pixels and vector is based in paths and points.
When you resize a raster image, you are expanding the pixels. Your program has to try to estimate what the colours would be for the additional pixels created. Due to this, the image loses it's clarity and creates a pixel effect.
When you resize a vector image, you are increasing the distance between the points. Due to this, the image doesn't lose it's clarity and doesn't pixellate.
The key element of vector is that it's infinitely scalable without any quality loss and it's why we love it!
What is Project Educate?
Project Educate is a Community Relations ran series of events which focus individually on each of the galleries of deviantART. It is exists to help give further exposure to the galleries concerned, help educate those in new mediums/genres and host events surrounding those galleries for those who are already part of the galleries.
Vector Week will be running 16th to 22nd of January 2011 with a series of events, articles and contests for those wanting to know more about vector and those who are already part of our scalable community.
Events Preview
During the week, several events will be taking place in dAmn, the deviantART Messaging Network (for the chatrooms if you will). In order to keep those informed of which events they'd like to make time for, I've decided to post a schedule of the big events happening:
Sunday 16th January: A Trivia Event hosted by #vector-artists. Test your vector knowledge and win some fabulous devwear prizes! Vector Trivia will be held in the VectorTRIVIA chat room at 2pm PST (dA time), 10pm GMT. Use this World Time Converter to correspond your time for the Vector Week events!
Monday 17th January: A featured chat with Ryan Putman aka ~RypeArts. Ryan is the owner of big tutorial blog VecTips and a regular writer over at VectorTuts+ and is a freelance web and graphic designer, who's primary medium is vector. This featured chat will be especially useful those who want to know more about writing tutorials, using vector in webdesign and graphic design as well as finding out what it's like to run such an influencial blog. This will take place at 9pm GMT/2pm MST in the #CommunityRelations chatroom.
Wednesday 19th January: A featured chat with Cristiano Siqueira aka `CrisVector. Cris is an internationally respected vector artist who works as a freelance illustrator. Creating amazing vector pieces for web and print. He is also a senior member of the art collective #depthCORE. This featured chat will be especially useful for those who want to know about what inspires him, what projects he gets involved in, being a freelance illustrator and much more! This will take place at 7pm GMT in the #CommunityRelations chatroom.
Thursday 20th January: A Vector Orgy hosted by #vexelove. Similar to Photoshop Tennis, a vector orgy is a social and learning gathering of deviants wishing to contribute to a live collaboration. You have 30 mins to add to the vector collaboration and then you pass the file on! This is a fun event and regardless of your ability and skill set, everyone is welcome to take part. All you need is Adobe Illustrator! This will be an all day event!
Further events to be announced, including the announcement of the winners of the third annual Golden Pen Award winners, informative articles, a big vector contest and much more! Be sure to follow the journals of `ChewedKandi to keep up to date on what's happening!
Useful Linkage for the Vector Galleries
Daily Deviations Tips on Self Suggesting DDs Golden Pen Award Vector CR Update - December 2010 Vector CR Update - November 2010 Vector CR Update - October 2010 - part 1 Vector CR Update - October 2010 - part 2 Vector Art Daily Deviations - December 2010 Vector Art Daily Deviations - November 2010STAMPS
GROUPS
FEATURED WORKS OF ART
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Sorry. The Devil made me say that!
I think of vector graphics as a file with a set of instructions, telling the computer how to draw the image. Like in a language the software can understand, the file tells the program, say, "OK, we are going to draw a circle. Place it at 235,324, give it a radius of 234, draw it with a line that is 23 wide, and make it blue, and make it filled. Please.
Of course, web pages were simpler back then!
Just for fun, I have grabbed some Postscript code for you. The stuff after "%" are comments, not used by the printer to print the graphic, but put there for humans to know what the commands mean. Now, I'm not sure, but I'm betting that vector art (Illustrator?) would look similar.
newpath %newpath command delimits range of fill, stroke
100 100 moveto % rest of line after % is a comment
0 100 rlineto % arguments precede command.
100 0 rlineto % rlineto continues path with a line to
0 -100 rlineto % currentx, currenty + indicated deltas
closepath % closepath adds a line to the first position in the path
fill % fill in the closed figure
newpath
300 100 moveto
300 400 lineto % lineto is like rlineto, but uses absolute coordinates
400 400 lineto
350 350 lineto
350 300 lineto
closepath
stroke % draw an outline of the figure
newpath
306 396 144 0 360 arc % draw a section of a circular arc
% xcenter, ycenter, radius, start degrees, end degrees
closepath
stroke
newpath 100 500 moveto 300 300 rlineto stroke % draw a plain line
showpage
Wow..lol I could never get my head arount that if I had to do vectors with codes like that. There are some 3D programs like POV Ray that use codes and I can't seem to get the program to do anything right...some people are just genius with it though. And Fractals are codes as well, but with UltraFractal and most other fractal programs, there's a window that shows you what you're getting when you put in different numbers/parameters.
I've never seen in a vector program anywhere that shows you the code like this, but yes, 'Vector graphics is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygon(s), which are all based on mathematical equations, to represent images in computer graphics' (quote Wikipedia). It would be interesting to see the code it uses to make these shapes and paths, but I'm glad I don't have to work like that!