The gaps are caused because of the shape of the wave: It’s just a straight line up and down, with no “along” at either end, so the tip drags behind the gondola and doesn’t reach the extremes of the wave. The real norwegian machine only waves in one direction. It’s baseline is along one side of the row, whereas mine is down the middle. I might try a few experiments to see if moving the baseline will make any difference.

But adding a big weight to the gondola will probably make the biggest difference too, pull it more taut. Notice the norwegian machine has a big brass weight hanging from it. Multiplying the amplitude is a bit of “cheat” that I’d prefer to avoid, but it also might be the easiest way to get it solid.

I have got one question for planning my works while exitedly waiting for my SD. Is is possible to get a plain black background like wirh the original norwegian drawbot? with your drawing all black spots are interrupted with white lines. so can you set the amplitude to a value that no paperwhite comes through?

cheers stephan

A few of those functions _could_ be squeezed into the tethered machine, if other bits are taken out. Actually all of the features _could_ be implemented as features in the controller, but something like the norwegian pixel would be so slow because each wave would need to be sent as a separate command. That could be a few thousand commands per row.

When I send either a trace or render norwegian command, nothing happens (other than the command being displayed on the touchscreen and the controller’s “current command” line).

After trying many times, and catching myself making many mistakes (it seems I forget one step or another with every attempt), I decided to try an ol’ fashioned polargraph drawing just to make sure all was otherwise normal. Unfortunately, I got the problem mbcook has described in the forum (gondola tries to shoot higher than possible).

I know Iam a bit of a nag here, but is the Norwegian Pixel Style going to work with a tethered Polargraph? (If not i might just have to upgrade if the evolution of awesome SDonly functions goes on 😉 )

Stephan