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5. The Foundation of 2D Vector for VFX: Point, Path, and SVG

Wallace Jackson

(1)Lompoc, California, USA

Now that you have an understanding of the fundamental concepts, terminology, principles, and methods of data footprint optimization for your digital imagery, digital audio, and digital video new media content, it’s time to get into 2D and 3D vector new media in this and the following chapter. Fusion supports one open source 2D vector format called SVG, or Scalable Vector Graphics, so that will make things easy. We can focus on SVG concepts and terminology in this chapter, as both GIMP and Inkscape support SVG. Then, in the next chapter, we can take 2D vector ...

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