Comments on: Polargraph v1.2: Vector sprites guide. http://www.polargraph.co.uk/2012/08/polargraph-v1-2-vector-sprites-guide/ drawing by robot Mon, 14 May 2018 00:33:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.7 By: Polargraph/V-plotter review - Loess.ru http://www.polargraph.co.uk/2012/08/polargraph-v1-2-vector-sprites-guide/#comment-14144 Fri, 04 May 2018 07:15:50 +0000 http://www.polargraph.co.uk/?p=583#comment-14144 […] — ?.?. norwegian pixel (?? ???????? ??????? Norwegian Creations) — ?????????? ?? Atmega ??? SD ????; ?? ????? ?????, ??? ??? ????????? ????? ?????? ??????, […]

]]> By: sandy http://www.polargraph.co.uk/2012/08/polargraph-v1-2-vector-sprites-guide/#comment-2183 Sat, 04 Aug 2012 09:35:08 +0000 http://www.polargraph.co.uk/?p=583#comment-2183 Stephan for the moment it’s for polargraphSD only I’m afraid, because it needs the local storage of the SD card. There’s no technical reason why something like this couldn’t be implemented in the controller. I’ve been reluctant to put much vectory functionality into the controller though, because there are other tools available that do that work much better than I ever could (eg inkscape), so you’d be best off just producing your artwork as SVG, and then importing that as a vector file.
The only reason I think I’d want to make it part of the controller is because it seems all fonts on PCs are outline fonts, and they don’t always work very well with the polargraph. It needs stroke fonts, and they are very hard to come by. That said, inkscape hs some plugins or extensions for the eggbot, and eggbotters have very much the same issues as polargraphers, so there are some stroke-font solutions that have come out of that.

]]> By: Stephan http://www.polargraph.co.uk/2012/08/polargraph-v1-2-vector-sprites-guide/#comment-2181 Sat, 04 Aug 2012 08:08:16 +0000 http://www.polargraph.co.uk/?p=583#comment-2181 Hi Sandy,

is this sprite feature just avalible for the PolargraphSD or is there a possibility to get it working on a tethered polargraph too?

Stephan

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