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What’s your input format? Bitmap? Vector? Also, are you sure the plotter cannot lift the pen? That’s rather weird for a plotter, sort-of turning it into an Etc
by Someone 4y ago
What’s your input format? Bitmap? Vector?
Also, are you sure the plotter cannot lift the pen? That’s rather weird for a plotter, sort-of turning it into an Etch A Sketch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etch_A_Sketch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etch_A_Sketch)
If you have a bitmap, I would hunt for a printer driver for a plotter, and try intercept its output.
Alternatively, look for software that uses turtle graphics to print bitmaps.
A cursory search didn’t find me much, though (large ink-jet printers nowadays are called plotter, and plotter services seem heavily advertised on Google), so both may not easily lead to results.
(About the only thing I found is https://observablehq.com/@ehouais/bitmap-image-to-plotter-svg https://observablehq.com/@ehouais/bitmap-image-to-plotter-sv...)
- mg 4y agoThe input is a bitmap. Yes, the plotter cannot lift the pen. This is what it looks like: https://twitter.com/marekgibney/status/1579054642545438721 https://twitter.com/marekgibney/status/1579054642545438721 The solution you linked to is doing hatching. I also found a tool that does this: https://github.com/plottertools/hatched https://github.com/plottertools/hatched I will probably use that for a first try. If I do more plotting, I would hope to find a more intelligent hatching algorithm, which takes the shape of the areas it fills into account. If none extist, I might even write my own.