{"id":477,"date":"2022-05-31T17:09:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T17:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/?p=477"},"modified":"2022-05-31T17:09:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T17:09:52","slug":"generative-art-pen-plotters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/31\/generative-art-pen-plotters\/","title":{"rendered":"Generative Art &#038; Pen Plotters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just operating my 3D printer have become a bit boring, so I&#8217;m interested in other uses for the gantry. Attaching a pen to the gantry to make a simple pen plotter seems like a worthy project. The plotting area will be fairly limited, but it seems like a good first step before investing in something more purpose built. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This page is mostly a repository for my notes on pen plotters and other generative art tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plotters and Reviews:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.evilmadscientist.com\/productsmenu\/846\">AxiDraw v3<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.generativehut.com\/post\/reviewing-the-idraw-pen-plotter\">iDraw Pen Plotter<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Inspiration for Generative Art<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.generativehut.com\">Generative Hut<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Software For Generating Art<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/inkscape.org\">Inkscape<\/a> offers numerous tools for converting SVG images gcode suitable for plotters like the AxiDraw. <a href=\"http:\/\/cutlings.wasbo.net\/inkscape-extension-removeduplicatelines\/\">This is a cool extension<\/a> for removing duplicate lines.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drawbot.com\">DrawBot<\/a> looks like a cool program for generating SVG images using Python<\/li><li>Many artists use JavaScript directly to generate SVG images. This probably makes putting the artwork online much easier.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Generative Artists<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.generativehut.com\">Generative Hut <\/a>site has many interviews with very interesting generative artists.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking back I had a previous pen plotter attempt: <a href=\"http:\/\/Looking back I had a previous pen plotter attempt: the rat plotter!\">the rat plotter!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just operating my 3D printer have become a bit boring, so I&#8217;m interested in other uses for the gantry. Attaching a pen to the gantry to make a simple pen plotter seems like a worthy project. The plotting area will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/31\/generative-art-pen-plotters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46,67,6,80],"tags":[95,96,97],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-programming","category-projects","category-robotics","tag-generativeart","tag-penplotter","tag-programmaticart"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VqWo-7H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}