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Show HN: I made a tiny book using a pen-plotter and AI
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Re: Show HN: I made a tiny book using a pen-plotter and AI
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
I remember once seeing a presentation about someone making extensive use of ligatures to create a very realistic hand writing effect. I think it was that an "e", for example, would always look different depending on the preceding letter, even though it was not a real ligature case per say. It's a huge amount of work but I remember the results being very convincing.
Amy Goodchild has done some incredible work in this vein, involving pen plotters even. https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog/cursive-handwriting-in-jav...
I'm not sure it was her but this is brilliant anyways. Thank you for sharing the link!
Re: Show HN: I made a tiny book using a pen-plotter and AI
#23I miss my pen plotter.
Re: Show HN: I made a tiny book using a pen-plotter and AI
#24Great work! Recraft V3 does very good vector images. I wonder if you could use the SVG the model outputs directly in the plotter. Would save you a lot of time.
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#25Lovely project! A little trick against the smudging with some paper is to apply a thin layer of hairspray to the page after plotting/printing and then letting it dry for a bit. We do this for riso prints at our universities printshop. Should work just the same with pen plots.
Re: Show HN: I made a tiny book using a pen-plotter and AI
#26Lovely project! A little trick against the smudging with some paper is to apply a thin layer of hairspray to the page after plotting/printing and then letting it dry for a bit. We do this for riso prints at our universities printshop. Should work just the same with pen plots.
Thanks for the tip! Does it make paper shiny and stiff?
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#27Loved this.
Love to build. Build to love.
Reminded me of Wordle and a few more projects like https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/
It's always wonderful to see projects we build for love. Haha. Cheers OP.
Re: Show HN: I made a tiny book using a pen-plotter and AI
#28Great work! Recraft V3 does very good vector images. I wonder if you could use the SVG the model outputs directly in the plotter. Would save you a lot of time.
I haven’t used it personally, but examining some in https://www.recraft.ai/community?imageParentType=vector_illu..., I presume they’re producing raster images, and then auto-tracing. I looked at a few of the line-art samples they had there, and https://img.recraft.ai/--CWuHOOd2OaTTKRrIUsA-2nRJt-52M8NnXRt... has all kinds of artefacts that are just like autotracing tends to produce.
For use on a plotter, the line art specifically needs to be a stroked path, rather than a filled path, and so for tracing you need centreline tracing, as discussed in the article. So you probably get absolutely no benefit from taking SVG—you’d need to turn them back into raster and trace them properly.
Re: Show HN: I made a tiny book using a pen-plotter and AI
#29Loved this. Love to build. Build to love. Reminded me of Wordle and a few more projects like https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/ It's always wonderful to see projects we build for love. Haha. Cheers OP.
Thank you, you made my day!