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| ==== Saving a Stipple Drawing ==== | | ==== Saving a Stipple Drawing ==== |
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− | Once in paused mode, press the button labeled "Save Stipple File" to save your stipple drawing as an SVG file.
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− | Here's what the corn plant drawing looks like, opened up in Inkscape. (See below for more about the file format.)
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− | The drawing is made up of a very large number of small circles, whose size is determined by the dot sizes in StippleGen.
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− | The stipple drawing can be used for almost anything at this point.
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− | This image that we've drawn on the egg was rendered with only 2000 stipples. Properly tuned for making dots rapidly, the Eggbot can plot about four stipples per second, so this kind of a plot can take as little as ten minutes, and can actually produce a remarkable likeness of a photo.
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| ==== Saving a TSP Path Drawing ==== | | ==== Saving a TSP Path Drawing ==== |
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− | Once in paused mode, press the button labeled 'Save "TSP Path"' to save the TSP path drawing as an SVG file.
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− | Here's what the corn plant TSP path drawing looks like, opened up in Inkscape. (See below for more about the file format.)
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− | And now, we've edited the path to remove a couple of the distracting segments, using Inkscape's path editing tools. We're now ready to plot this path.
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− | Because this is essentially one continuous path, with almost no pen-up/pen-down motion, the whole drawing can be plotted in a minute or two.
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