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My RSS feed reader this morning was graced by a fantastic article over on a new addition to my feeds list: Terminally Incoherent.

They don’t need to split it into a trilogy like Lucas did. They can do it in one movie if they can and want to. The aim is to still keep it somewhat the spirit of the Classic continuity but the Vader parts ought to be darker and more serious for obvious reasons. Make sure that R2D2, C3PO, Chewbacka and Fett family do not appear in this movie at all.

That’s all of a teaser I will provide. Please, go and read it in it’s full glory.

Open Letter to the future George Lucas Estate

Vector Magic desktop edition is now available. It can convert bitmap images into vector images, with fairly impressive results. You can tweak the settings throughout, and it’s a useful tool if you need to do this sort of thing. Much easier than hand-tracing scans of logos and the like!

Here’s one I prepared earlier. I think I’ll tweak the right eye, but otherwise it looks pretty good. It’s much easier to make the background transparent if you don’t have to worry about anti-aliasing, too.

For reference, here is the original image, scaled to about the same size. Pixellated, a bit!