I made some lasercut line artwork, the fun thing about this is the way it was drawn though so be sure to check out the video
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That’s lovely!
How did you construct the pattern?
Ok, I figured it out by looking at your inspiration video on your blog. However, when I try it in Illustrator and I draw the spiral lines with the pen tool, every time I click on another line it creates a point, thus ending the line which I have to then redraw as another, individual line!
So, basically, I can do it, but there is a lot of faff involved where I have to use single lines rather than a continuous line (like your laser draws).
Puzzled!
OK. Finally worked it out. You have to draw the lines short then stretch them to the other lines.
I can’t find any other way.
Sorry to bore everyone with my step by step problem - it’s the only way for me to work it out! 
I loved seeing all your steps!! Half the fun of making is seeing how people figure it all out! 
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I normally appall smoke marks, but it really works for this! Well done!
Yes, they shape the curves nicely.
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Fascinating! (And pretty!) Did you tell it to cut this way, or did the software make that decision? My vinyl cutter makes some very interesting choices about cut sequence sometimes.
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Each spiral is a single line so if the software is behaving at all nicely it will naturally select this path. All I did was separate the division lines from the spirals.
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How to draw curves using only straight lines…
This would make an infuriating puzzle. Haha
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Here are a few of my Line Art Drawings
the first two use the same inner core triangle.
Have to wait for my Glowforge to see how these turn out.
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How does one go about designing these? Lol.
Very cool! I love the combination of art and algorithm!
It’s literally the same as in the video, you draw a framework and then fill each section with a spiral.
I’m using inkscape so it was very easy to draw one continuous line for each spiral.
The link at @m_raynsford’s site shows a hand drawing process. It’s magic! This process demonstrates properties of emergent phenomena where simple rules generate complex things. Zen doodle. - GIF on Imgur
The computer programming language Processing is a great resource for doing generative art with simple procedures to automatic the production. Browse Sketches - OpenProcessing
And this one gets you started better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms_aim_VdBg
And one more edit: had to figure out what ASMR was. Glowforge leads me into some amazing adventures.
ASMR - Wikipedia
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This is really really cool, and I am thinking that there may be a whole bunch of laptops with something along these lines (pun intended) on their lids in the second half of this year…
I ran across something called “quasiystals” recently. They are non-repeating patterns that LOOK like repeating patterns. I won’t pretend to understand the math but the results are beautiful.
And… for your glowforging pleasure I found an online quasicrystal pattern generator that makes SVG files!
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wow thats pretty cool. I ended up playing it with for a while. It doesnt like big numbers though =).
A friend linked me to a similar site a few days ago thats also pretty fun to play with:
http://levskaya.github.io/eschersketch/
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