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Hello everyone! About half a year ago I built my first pen plotter based on the design shared by Andrew Sleigh. Thanks for his work! I modified some elements to suit my own needs and am now looking for new ways to apply and create graphics. I want to share some of my work, which you can see on my Instagram profile.

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I tried something different - alien star maps. SVG written in c#, force directed layout for tue constellation and simulated annealing for the label placement. Fun stuff !

Hi everyone. I'm absolutely enthralled by all the art created in this sub and would like to see if any of you are available for a commissioned piece at A1 size (or close to that).

A photograph of Georg Nees' plotter art piece \"Schotter\"

Some context: For years, I've been fascinated by a particular plotter art piece called "Schotter" by Georg Nees on a Zuse Graphomat Z64. There are hundreds upon hundreds of tutorials online to "recreate" the piece, but the majority falls short due to the unique randomization/seed he used in his creation. Zellyn Hunter (ref, ref) was able to dig up the original source code from 1968 and translated it to Python. They also found the right seed to generate the final image. An absolutely interesting read if you have the time! (I've included links at the bottom). I've adapted the work to create an SVG from the translated algorithm and can work with you to translate this to g-code if needed.

As a German software developer, who also studied mathematics myself, I think this would make a great piece for my office due to its history and impact on my life. I considered a print version of this, but it just isn't the same...

From the museum's website:

Georg Nees (born 1926, Nuremberg) is considered one of the founders of computer art and graphics. He was also one of the first people to exhibit his computer graphics, at the studio gallery of the Technische Hochschule in Stuttgart in February 1965.

Nees studied mathematics and physics at the universities of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Stuttgart. He subsequently worked for Siemens as a software engineer, and was instrumental in their purchasing a 'Zuse Graphomat', a drawing machine operated by computer-generated punched tape. The machine was capable of creating geometric patterns and, although the programming language that Nees used (ALGOL) was designed specifically for scientific computers, Nees used it to create aesthetic images such as this one.

In 1969 he received his doctorate on the subject of Generative Computer Graphics under Max Bense, the German philosopher and writer.

Along with a number of other practitioners working at this time, Nees was interested in the relationship between order and disorder in picture composition. Here he introduced random variables into the computer program, causing the orderly squares to descend into chaos.

Commission:

• First of all, do you have a plotter that can produce an A1 plot or similar size?
• Can you ship to Las Vegas, Nevada, United States? (I suppose a carton tube or similar would be sufficient)
• I'd love to plot this in black marker on beige-ish paper if possible. We can work together on sourcing the required supplies.
• Do you have a way to translate an SVG into any g-code you need? Again, I'll work with you to translate the work into any format/size/etc you need for your plotter/device.
• I do not want this for free. Let's work something out to compensate you for your time, supplies, shipping, etc.

If interested, please reply here with questions or DM me! I appreciate your time.

Finally, here is the SVG I created: https://pastebin.com/ehMDknJC

References

• Museum: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O221321/schotter-print-nees-georg/
• http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/schotter/
• Algorithm: https://zellyn.com/2024/06/schotter-1/
• Algorithm: https://zellyn.com/2024/06/schotter-2/
• https://scruss.com/blog/2019/11/25/schotter-on-a-tek-4010/

I want to get started with plotter art what hardware and software would you recommend?

Any online classes or good videos?

Thanks in advance

Hello everyone, I've been browsing some alternative pen plotters from China, many of which don't have a specific brand, and I've noticed for some plotters you have two alternatives where seemingly the only thing that changes is that one is "CCE" while the other is "GCE", with the GCE option being more expensive.

I couldn't find in this subreddit or elsewhere online someone explaining what the difference is, could someone do me the kindness of explaining what these two acronyms mean? Why would GCE be more expensive? Which of the two would be recomended for which scenarios?

Thanks to everyone that sends a message here, and I apologise in case this was already answered elsewhere or if it's not fit for this subreddit

Hello, I’m an avid user of procreate, I want to navigate over to plotter art to create unique prints to sell.

My works are not terribly plotter art compatible but I’m wondering with a little definition and attention to detail, they’ll become so.

Where do I start in terms of knowledge?

Big brands to trust and ones to stay away from in terms of plotters?

Ink, where do I go for good quality plotter ink?

Same go for pens?

Brackets, add ones etc, where does one look?

How much should a fully capable set up put me back USD$ wise?

Here is an artwork I did as thanks!

Tried my Kid photo You can check out us on @ink_linestudio