Printing material experiments

The students were obliged to experiment with paper....what is the effect of material?
Oooooh....a lot!



Hilde and Susanne

Martijn's plotting drumkit

Martijn came up with something special, (as usual!).
He found a possibility to connect his drumkit to Processing and using the plotter lib to plot his drumming etudes:

Guest lecturer Petr Blokland

Tuesday afternoon we had Petr Blokland talking about his experiences with letter design. Great lecture!

Using a CNC script to plot

Aldje came up with this link:

CNC plotter script
http://www.larsby.com/johan/?p=761

This is the script, making horizontal lines of a png image:

www.contrechoc.com/blogPics/plotter/cnc_plotter.zip

you have to add the plotterlib (either the one of Edwin, or the one of the blog) yourself :-), nice exercize!

Caroline

Plotting from Adobe Illustrator

To install:
http://www.ricardmarxer.com/geomerative/
as always unzip and place in Documents/Processing/libraries
and Edwin Jakobs has made a first start to get to a plotter with this script:

http://www.contrechoc.com/blogPics/plotter/plotsvg.zip

Edwin told us that this example was not really working well and should be modified.

You need his plotter library:

http://www.contrechoc.com/blogPics/plotter/hpgltest.zip

This is the total library of Edwin Jakobs.

http://www.contrechoc.com/blogPics/plotter/HPGL-0.1.0.zip



Lotte, Delany, Rivke









Juan

5x7 font workshop

basicDrawing_Plotter_5x7.pde

this is the template for the workshop

updated and tested
left top: the 5 x 7 matrix
just next to it the drawing area (basic area....)
then two "letters" are printed next to each other...

hitting a key plots the letter and saves the file on that letter.txt

tijn

Tim

Drawing and then plotting

With the script in the first link you can draw with the mouse ( by clicking ) and if you think the result is ok, by hitting a key on the keyboard the plotting commands are dispatched and you plot the drawing.

basicDrawing_Plotter.pde

(Update: this sketch detects if the plotter is attached and when not the error is caught and does not cause any damage.)

You can do the same without the plotter attached, but then the list of point of the drawing is saved to a file in your datafolder (of the sketch) and can be loaded later:

plottingletters_saveFile.pde

ok and then you can retrieve and plot this linedrawing using this sketch (if the plotter is connected). You only have to change the name of the file to load in this line of code:

String myName = "a";

(in the function draw() )
Now he is searching for a textfile called a.txt in the sketchfolder (in Documents Processing )

plottingletters_loadFile.pde

My name is BEAM from now on!