drawlings
I was gifted a Leonardo Da Vinci's drawing machine [1] recently. It was a lot of fun to build and use. I drew all the program disks I received. After watching it work for a while I thought about what it was doing. Simply each petal moves the arm along the X and y axis. I asked the creators if they already had software to convert images to disks. They said that they were all hand created.
Concept
- trace a line image and record its points
- turn those points in to x and y plots
- create a disk image one for each x and y
- find a friend with a laser cutter
- enjoy
Rules
- all lines are in black rbga(0,0,0,1)
- the line must close back on itself
- no line crosses
- if a line is to cross it must end with a unique color to the direction of the crossing.
- the crossed point must be white
- the other side of the line must have the matching color line
- the other side's color line must touch the black line again
Process
basics
every command takes a required input, output file location and a subcommand. I do not create folders for you.
cargo run -- test.toml output disk_images
verbose levels can output files in different stages. If the trace is not working it will show you around which point failed. I need to document this better but you add more -v1's
cargo run --release -- test_data/line.png output -v1 -v1 -v1 -v1 process_file
stage 1 (vector_dump)
Trace the image and dump the line points to a text (toml) file. This allows a person to edit points.
debug (debug_image)
Takes a vector toml file and creates an image. It should be the final image that is produce by the disks. Why? If you edit the file it is a nice tool. There might be unwanted artificts from width of the line that can show up.
Disks (disk_images)
Take the toml input and produce two files outputfilename_x.png and outputfilename_y.png
process_file
Runs the toml and disk command together.
cargo run --release -- test_data/line.png output -v1 -v1 -v1 -v1 process_file
tests
/test_data is what i am using durning devlopment.
/test/images are code tests
mistakes are fun images from bad math.
Does it work?
I dont know i am stuck on "find a friend with a laser cutter"