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From the ^above, using a pattern as a 'seed'.
- This is a clumsy 8½ minute effort.Nairn
- And 18 minutes later, a section taken as a circle and cut out of 1.5mm plywood.
https://imgz.org/iXn…Nairn - numbers guy?imbecile
- https://i0.wp.com/ha…Nairn
- @imbecile - I'm thinking about that LCD-esque stencil you mentioned, btw. I'll send you one if anything comes of it.Nairn
- sweet, i'm definitely getting 45 adapter vibes from the animation / cutout.imbecile
- does it affect the quality / time cutting these using a raster base instead of vector? as I would presume live trace adds unnecessary nodes / unevenness?imbecile
- the gif here is all done in raster, as per the video. I then take that and livetrace it, meddling with the settings. it came out q. clean first time anywayNairn
- the advantage with things like this is the livetrace output is very forgiving. as long as everything is rounded, it 'looks ok' because there's no hard referenceNairn
- ..for how it 'should' look. As opposed to livetracing something like a logo or a font.Nairn
- ah, hold on - you meant on the laser-side? ok, no - you always cut with a vector. you can etch with raster, and i guess right through 'to cut', but thatNairn
- ..would be hugely inefficient.Nairn
- I know you always cut with vector, having felt with vinyl cutters, I know that additional nodes can slow cuts.imbecile
- My question was... are those additional live trace nodes having a noticeable impact on cut time?imbecile
- Ah, no. that sort of level of fuckedness doesn't come in til you make 'each arc' more than like 4 points. Sometimes it's good to do that to slo machineNairn
- like, if you're cutting something paper thin and are going at '100% speed'. Sometimes it's good to add in more points to slow a curve down to cut neat.Nairn
- On any material beyond a couple of millimetres or so, it doesn't make much difference.Nairn
- *couple of millmetres *thickness*, idiot.Nairn