source edge to Path doing the unexpected

[Tony Bouttell]

Hi,

I have a simple PASEQ I run:

1. set canvas white
2. delete bezlayer
3. source edge to path

then I paint the bezlayer using a thin color line 6x6 pixels, with a min path length of 50 and max  of 1600

followed by thin 2x2 black line, with a min path length of 350 and a max path length of 1600

This effectlively gives me a color outline with a thin black line running at the center of each color line

i then do a bunch of random stuff to fill and color the cavas.

At this pont the original lines have been degraded and I want to reintroduce the outline

I rerun step 2 and 3.

when I try to redo the  6x6 color line all I get is color dots randomly placed over the canvas.

if "source edge to path" creates a new path using the source, why won't lines appear on the new paths instead of dots ? The min path length is 350 and the max is 1600 since I only want to redo the longer outlines.

[Tony Bouttell]

After some poking around I discovered that even if run step 1,2 and 3 right after I draw the initial outline I get nothing but random dots on the screen, when I run the outline a second time:

1. set canvas white
2. delete bezlayer
3. source edge to path
4. Paint Bezlayer Thin 6 pixel  < gives me thin colored lines ranging from 60 to 1600 long
5. Paint Bezlayer Thin 2 pixel < gives me thin black lines ranging from 350 to 1600 long, inside colored lines
6. set canvas white
7. delete Bezlayer
8. source edge to path < gives me colored dots randomly on the canvas
9. Paint Bezlayer Thin 6 pixel < gives me black dots randomly on the canvas

[Synthetik]

Post the PASeq for me to take a look at.

[Tony Bouttell]

Here you go

Polo_AM_072113_0027_SA_2.PASEQ

[Synthetik]

Of course it seems to be working fine for me when i try it here. Generates adjacent source edges and skeleton as expected with those particular action steps. I ran it step by step, looking at the bezier paths it generated, and the paint strokes that came from them. You get a little noise in highly textured areas of the source image (which is to be expected), but nothing i'd call random colored dots.

Email me the source image you are using and the specific canvas size in pixels you are working with and a screen shot of the problem you are seeing and i'll run another test so i can exactly duplicate what you are doing. Also, are you using 4.05 or another build?