Hi Kirk, Yes, this is really just for providing surface decoration; screens, room dividers or box lids come to mind. Converting it to 3d could be an interesting challenge !
Cheers, Andy. On Monday 17 May 2010, Kirk Wallace wrote: > On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 11:11 +0100, Andrew wrote: > > Hmm, well my webstats say there have been over 200 unique visits to the > > spirograph page, but as yet not a single comment.... > > > > Can anybody give me some feedback, good or bad :) > > > > Cheers, > > Andy. > > I certainly don't want to discourage your effort, but I suppose no one > has found the need for your application, yet. I know when I have a need > for your application, I will be making a pest of myself. > > In briefly considering how I might try to use your application, it seems > that in its current form, one would be limited to engraving fine lines > on a flat surface. What might be interesting would be to use the current > path to come up with a three dimensional surface. Perhaps, use the > original path as it is, then change Z with parallel paths. On the other > hand, converting the path to an image, using GIMP to shade it, then > using the image-to-g-code filter in the .ini file could be another way, > but this would rasterize the surface. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
