Halftones in inkscape

Short version: There’s a way to make halftone images in Inkscape.

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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 SVG on your hands.

Luckily I was able to find the original post that describes it in pretty good detail, so here you go:

http://www.polargraph.co.uk/forum/polargraphs-group2/drawing-techniques-forum4/using-inkscape-to-generate-vectorized-halftones-thread105/

Here’s the file if you’re so inclined. Hopefully I haven’t angered the Branding guideline masters at GF with this…

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