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Support "traced placeholder" generation in gatsby-plugin-sharp #2435

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@KyleAMathews

Ran across on Twitter this really cool demo of a generating outlines of images and using them as placeholders while loading the image:

https://twitter.com/mikaelainalem/status/918213244954861569

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It'd be fun if we could build this into our image processing pipeline

Following this thread which suggested using a unix tool named potrace. There's also a little-used JS port of potrace.

If anyone wants to experiment with this, it'd be a really cool addition to Gatsby!

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