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Stipplegen and the rasterbator and halftones in general have been covered elsewhere:

Converting to halftone with stipplegen

Was looking at some of the big oversized halftone dot prints done with CNC routers and was wondering about how that would look on the GF. Ran a picture through a program called stipplegen and did a 7x7 test print. At this scale, the larger dots are about 2mm. [image] Now I’m wondering how this would look at 4-5 times this size.

Halftones in inkscape

Short version: There’s a way to make halftone images in Inkscape. [image][image] Long version: I remembered this technique from a few years ago when I was playing with a pen plotter (No, not a polargraph, but I still kind of want one). Basically, you use Inkscape’s tiled clones feature to get the result you want. This allows for crazy control, but one warning: Be careful of how many nodes you have in your “dot”. It scales up incredibly quickly, and pretty soon you’ll have a beast of an SV…

Provide halftones directly

Hi support: I have used the convert to dots option to build a silkscreen It was OK but I’d like more control over it How can I provide my own dot pattern? A vector set of points? A high res image of dots on 3D burn mode?

Anyone know how to create the pictured halftone-like effect?

The other day I saw a fence that used holes of various sizes to render an image. It was a neat effect. Any ideas on how to turn a normal bitmap image into a bazillion vector cuts? [image]

Beta Project: Halftone Pattern Engraving

I made some more engravings… This time I used halftone dot patterns to engrave photographic imagery. You can create halftone patterns of images in Illustrator and Photoshop, though it may take some time and perhaps some trial and error. I’ve done that before, but opted to use this cool site I found: https://halftonepro.com/ With a paid membership you can export unwatermarked images in either rasterized .png format or vector files as .svg. Here are some of the results! 01 with maski…

Rasterbated Images

Another technique which will translate easily to laser operations http://makezine.com/2015/12/27/create-stunning-illuminated-art-rasterbated-images/

… and more. Search around, it’s a pretty well-discussed idea.