Stipplegen

Introduction

StippleGen is a free, open source, and cross-platform utility from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories that can create stipple drawings (using Adrian Secord's algorithm) and TSP art from image files.

StippleGen saves its files as editable, Eggbot-ready Inkscape SVG files, which can in turn be opened by other vector graphics programs, or re-saved as PDF files for use in other contexts. It can also generate a TSP path from the stippled image, and either save that path as an SVG file or simply use that path as the order of plotting for the stipple diagram.

You can read an extended introduction to StippleGen at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories.

Download

StippleGen is free and open source software, written in the Processing development environment. It comes ready to run on Mac, Windows, and Linux, and it is available for download here.

(StippleGen is hosted as part of the Eggbot project on Google Code.)

The download includes ready-to-run platform-specific versions of StippleGen for Mac, Windows, and Linux, as well as the source code. You will need to have a recent version of Java installed on your computer.

Usage

Source Code

The StippleGen source code is available as part of the StippleGen .zip file. To run the code from source, you'll need to download Processing, and install the toxiclibs library and the ControlP5 library.