What is Vector art?
Vector art is a unique type of art format with the ability to scale. Vector design is sometimes called geometric modeling. Vector is the use of mathematic formulas such as points, lines, objects and curves to create images. Opposite of vector art is raster graphics. Raster images hold color and image data in each pixel. In laymans terms, it’s an image that keeps it’s clarity 100% no matter how big or small it’s edited to. Vector graphics are based on algorithms which can be scaled to any size. Unlike a .jpg or .bmp, both are raster images, vector images are mathematical formulas, the designs can be scaled to as small as an icon or as large as a building. Vector files are generally .eps, .svg and .ai formats. Vector illustrations are very clean and crisp, and the design is ready for print on anything. THINK! Graphic and Printing Solutions can convert your artwork to vector files. There are some programs with vector tracing features, but a program can never replace the precision of one o
Vector art is composed strictly of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves and polygons to represent images. It can be reduced or enlarged without any loss of resolution and is the only type of art that can be used with a vinyl plotter. Vector is the preferred type of art for most jobs.
Much of the art in your files are, like .tif and .jpg, raster based bitmap images, composed of pixels or dots per inch, and they are size sensitive, which means that as you enlarge them, the dots get larger and image quality gets worse. All vector images are composed of lines like wireframes used to form images, and are size independent: no matter how much you enlarge them, the lines do not deteriorate. Converting raster based images can be simple or time-consuming, depending on the complexity of detail in the pixel-based image.
