I’ve been playing and experimenting with how delicate I can get.
There was this one design by Duhrer (based on a design by Leonardo) that I was thinking I could clean up and etch but I thought - what if I designed the entire image for only cuts? Have all the lines go all the way through!
Of course - this meant I had to go from dirty scanned data to shapes and then because I didn’t want shapes (or even outlines) to make the shapes into single lines and create enough gaps so that it wouldn’t fall apart. My final design is a little removed from Duhrer but I think it works!
Thanks - and those lines go all the way through - no score. I will clean it up later - we have our own concoction for getting rid of the soot / smoke. Plus if I tape up the next one it is easy to get off because it’s one long piece (no holes).
Oh that is brilliant! I am working on a couple of similarly complex design - like a mandala of sorts - and struggling with the same issue with fragility of the output. I’d love to hear more about how you went from shapes to lines - by hand? I’ve tried so many ways to automate the process, I swear it would take me a week to trace it all out by hand…