Cartoon effect option in illustrator

I noticed there are a ton of features for tracing bitmap graphics images. However, I often have trouble turning real pictures into actual cartoons.
Perhaps Adobe can do us all a huge favor an we'll love you forever if you do. Create a carton tracing option and specifically made for turning real human people into cartoons. Perhaps this new cartoon effect feature can have tons of adjustment features that we can play with to get ANY image into a cartoon????
please oh please,
Jeremy,
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Jeremy, can you unambiguously define for us (human-to-human) what exactly you mean by "cartoon"?
No?
Then how is software supposed to do it?
Some mainstream drawing programs (Flash, Corel Draw, Corel Designer) are beginning to do a very modest amount of shape recognition (simple geometric primitives). But as it is, Illustrator's autotrace feature doesn't even know "sky" from "tree", let alone "eye" from "hair". It just detects color areas and tries to draw paths around them.
Computers
compute. That presupposes clearly defined, unambiguous numerical values and consistently-applied algorithms.
Humans
interpret. If Adobe created software that could transform any given photograph into whatever any given user defines as a "cartoon", Adobe would be onto something much more profound than drawing software.
Plus, you're asking for this from a company which, after over 20 years of development, still hasn't figured out how to give Illustrator a proper cutting tool. ;-)
JET

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