Pen Plotter Programming: The Basics (2017)

• ribbon

  3 243 0.0 Go

  Ribbon diagrams of proteins in #golang. (by fogleman)

Looking at this function:

https://github.com/fogleman/ribbon/blob/master/ribbon/camera...

it's getting the carbonyls (C and O atoms) and then trying to pick a view vector based on maximising some scores ... of some kind. Like the aspect ratio and number of visible points? Not sure.

• awesome-plotters

  7 1,021 8.0

  A curated list of code and resources for computer-controlled drawing machines and other visual art robots.

> That's interesting as a programming exercise, but

why is this a "but"? does the existence of HPGL negate the work being presented here somehow? modern plotters seem to have less capable control languages such as whatever the axidraw does, or G-code for most of the open source controllers. I guess folks assume you'll just be programmatically generating or converting to the output format anyways.

inkscape can output HPGL directly. there's also chiplotle which is a python library. i've tried to gather up all the other HPGL-related software i could find here: https://github.com/beardicus/awesome-plotters#hpgl

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• EBB-Plotteri

  1 1 8.2 Python

I gave up trying to make Axidraw and all that slightly esoteric stuff working and just switched to G-code.

Also because I also have laser plotter and 3D-printer running on G-code.

Google could not find any G-code interpreter, which is only slightly weird?

https://github.com/timonoko/EBB-Plotteri

• Illustrate

  2 102 10.0 Fortran

  Biomolecular Illustration Tool

  

I actually used a slightly modified version of his Illustrate program (https://github.com/ccsb-scripps/Illustrate) for rendering. The toughest part was getting the right pose; in some cases I had to adjust it manually.

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