Vector cutting a dithering pattern.

[Mitchell Tutty]

I've had this idea in the back of my head for some time which I think still think is possible and sounds pretty neat.
I'm looking to convert a bitmap into a dithering pattern, not to be engraved, but to be vector cut instead. I've been looking into stipple images, and that's really on the track. Do a quick google search if you're unsure what I mean by stipple image, as I want to avoid linking you anywhere.
Don't really know if it has any commercial use, stencils maybe? Would be cool.

Any thoughts, anybody tried doing it?
Anybody do it regularly?

Thanks
Mitchell

[walter hofmann]

look here
http://wiki.evilmadscientist.com/Producing_a_stippled_image_with_Gimp
there is explained the process but you could do it the same way with photo paint from corel
greetings
walt

[Dan Hintz]

Are you talking about each dot is actually a small circle cut out? If so, you would likely be faster doing it as a raster cut rather than a vector cut... there's a dividing line in total time, and once you hit a certain number of circles to cut over a specific areal size, you're better off switching to raster.

[Matt Turner (physics)]

look here
http://wiki.evilmadscientist.com/Producing_a_stippled_image_with_Gimp
there is explained the process but you could do it the same way with photo paint from corel
greetings
walt

Or http://wiki.evilmadscientist.com/StippleGen (from the same folks) for producing a vectorized file.

[Robert Walters]

Or http://wiki.evilmadscientist.com/StippleGen (from the same folks) for producing a vectorized file.

Matt,


Come on, give SLAC a run for their money with their fancy shmancy 50 GeV.
You should try that on your particle accelerator... nerd graffiti =)

[Mitchell Tutty]

I doubt my machine is powerful enough to raster through my 1mm thick PETG plastic.