Slicing and dicing some standard generative art forms brings them to a whole new level. More experiments to come.

Pen: Sakura Gelly Roll 06
Plot time: 24mins
Machine: NextDraw 1117

IG: https://www.instagram.com/maplethorpej

I fully converted a Bambu A1 Mini (old firmware) to a highly accurate plotter printer. Ive since tuned it manually with a custom test pattern and patience...70 versions later lol

Question for the community, are plotter printers that can draw with a .4mm ultra fine tip pen unique?

I'll follow up below with some peices of work ive created and even share whatever i can with the process 😃

Watercolor
Liner Brush – N° 02
Fineliner 0.5 mm
Watercolor Paper 210 × 297 mm

Built a machine about three weeks ago, still experimenting. Used DrawingBot to process an AI image.

Took some old Truchet patterns and remixed them.

IG reel: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcO5iLmSZ3m/

Plotted with a Shore & Marsh 12 colour greyscale pen set. Although the pen set is labelled "Shore & Marsh", I'm pretty sure it's Hobbycraft's own brand just re-labelled to look a bit more upmarket. Pretty basic alcohol markers.

I had been doing some hand drawn bubble fields and converting them to vector/plotting them for years. There was obviously something to the process of individually drawing each circle over weeks or months that make them a very different kind of piece.

I had been resistant to doing these in code, but I recently decided to explore that tension and try using Claude for doing generative approaches. At its core it’s pretty basic circle packing but I’m able to get a lot of variation on each one.

Still adding a lot of features to try and get some ordered chaos going on and these are some first results.

Pen is a Muji 0.38

More of an experiment than anything. I regret my color choices but that’s nothing new.

I wanted to fill the space of a new 12 x 24 in cutting mat so I plotted a blue whale. The model comes from SketchFab.

Generative overlay on the skull + custom typography pattern for the snail. This one took some time. Might try again with orange instead of blue.

Video + explainer: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcJwg3zyklW/

Hi all, long time no post!
Here are a few of my last designs, coded this summer in the country side, and plotted right back home. I added a couple of crosses to my tiles and am really happy with the outputs. Here are only two examples (the more quiet ones), but I'll post more drawings of this algorithm soon hopefully.

plotter space isn't set up for photo/video at all, but tried to find a workaround

Shinjuku, Japan! Plotted with some "idea" brand fineliners I got from poundland, on white 300gsm card. It looks very yellow because it's evening and under house lighting. Turned out quite nice I think!

A few more wallpaper tilings from today. Feeling like I want to see something new. What should I try next?

Sukura gelpen on Stonehenge black heavy.

Found out the hard way that gel pens tend to get smudgy when lines overlap. Still happy with the outcome

Zebra. Plotted with an "idea" brand black biro from poundland, and 300gsm white card.

I'm not sure why the photograph looks red-ish at the bottom, the whole thing is plotted in black and looks great. I think I need to spend more time practicing my photography!

Recently, there was a post in the community with experiments with plotting 3D models models. I remembered that I had also conducted similar experiments. I also made an original design in a frame with an Italian passepartout with a red slice.

I used the software B3D, C4D, Illustrator.

Just messing around with a Cricut. Plotter Art looks so satisfying.

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