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Custom Scrabble® Tile generator

Back in August I made a Ruby program to generate SVG files for Scrabble® tile sets with custom images on the back. We’ve been pretty busy here (as you know) but I got inspired by some of the work that I’ve seen on the forum. You can customize these by supplying an SVG file that will be used as the image on the reverse side of the tiles. The SVG file will be automatically scaled to fit the backs of the tiles. You can also choose to split the tiles into two parts for cutting on smaller pieces of…

Generative SVGs for engraving

Hey all! One of the things I do in my spare time is make lots of generative/algorithmic art with code, using tools like Processing, openFrameworks, etc. I recently released the code for an app that will load a photo and create a sort-of halftone image using sine waves. That is, the brightness/darkness of the image will increase or decrease the amplitude of a sine wave as it goes across the image. It’s easier to see the example below. The output of the app is a SVG file. I originally created t…

Guilloche/Spirograph-like Design App with PNG/SVG save

I was in our local TAP Plastics last week and saw a few large, round disks of acrylic on the wall that they had laser-etched a spirograph-like pattern into (there was a fluorescent-orange one that didn’t even need edge lighting to look super-cool). I wasn’t sure where they got the pattern to etch, but I knew that it should be pretty easy to write an app to do it. Of course me being me, I kept adding more and more features, which of course included saving as either a PNG for etching or SVG for p…

Jigsaw puzzle generator

After reading this thread, I started looking for a jigsaw generator. I found this older thread. In both of them there are some links, google found a few others. All in all, I wasn’t satisfied with the results, so I wrote my own. I hope this is useful to some of you as well. This has seen some updates over the years (and an additional hex / circle variant), and is now hosted here: https://draradech.github.io/jigsaw/index.html [image] [image] Code available on github, in case you want to fork…

Line artwork Spiral

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. [image] And… for your glowforging pleasure I found an online quasicrystal pattern generator that makes SVG files! http://berjon.com/quasi/