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Next step - convert real-life video to textured triangles?
I purchased the app because it's a problem that I've always hoped I'd find a solution for. However, I feel like I'm missing something fundamental...

  1. Import .png file[1] that I'd like to convert to a vector image.

  2. Click "Vectorize"
...and the resulting output is a black square.

I tried a couple of other .png and .jpeg files of different icons that I had and I'm getting the same result. After that I opened up Photoshop and converted the original icon from RGB to Greyscale and then exported it I tried again -- same outcome as the first attempt.

Definitely not a great first experience.

-- [1] https://nubits.com/sites/all/themes/nubits/assets/img/home/h...

If you're using Photoshop then you might also have access to other Adobe products, Flash has been able to do this for more then a dacade and depending on the complexity of the bitmap (photos obviously don't work that well), it had good results for me in the past. Since the output is a vector, often its quite easy to tweak the end result as well.
@Mtinie: sorry about that. You have encountered a rare bug in Image Vectorizer 1.4; this happens very infrequently and usually only after Image Vectorizer has been open for a long time. But sometimes it can also happen sooner. It seems to be caused by an underlying Cocoa bug, and I am working on fixing this.

Fortunately, there is a simple solution: just close and re-open the application. If this doesn't work for you, please let me know.

Here is the output from your image:

http://image-vectorizer.com/downloads/hero-logo.pdf

Thanks, -- Peter (Image Vectorizer)

How does it compare to http://potrace.sourceforge.net/ ?
It's the same codebase, or at least closely related. Image Vectorizer's tracer is produced by Icosasoft, which is the company owned by the guy who wrote potrace (and licenses the non-GPL version)
You folks are correct. Potrace, Image Vectorizer, and Inkscape all use the same underlying vector engine. They have different user interfaces and appeal to different audiences. -- Peter (Image Vectorizer)
Are these Show HN posts payed ads or the stealthy kind?
Inkscape, which is free software and runs on both Windows and Linux, has a reasonably good vectorizer. (It's under Path->Trace Bitmap). You get .SVG files out.

(I did the first vectorizer for small computers, Autodesk CAD/Camera, in 1983. Vectorizing E-size drawings in 640K was the hardest part of the problem.)

I'm interested in whether Apple will do anything about the use of the "Mac share icon" - it looks like both copyright infringement of this particular logo and contributory infringement (equipping others to use works without a license). My guess is they'll never know.