Crosshatching engrave alternative

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OK so dashes and crosshatching. This got interesting.

Three squares.

Details on the rightmost

And a circle with tiny uncoordinated dashes:

Yields:

I probably should have spaced the dash pattern a bit further apart on that circle, it looks like a grid… but you can see that there’s some interesting texture to the lines. It probably would have been clearer with less power too.

Anyway, proof of concept done, interesting.

Previously, halftones:

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…