From a picture to the CNC

[iipeacefrog]

So I just moved into a loft in la, and i have to build the walls on my new room. the room gets extremely hot so i decided to take make some 'ventilating art.' I plan to take an interesting picture...pixelate it in photoshop and mess around with it until i get basically a grid of 1/2" circles spaced close together which still communicate the photo. I would then like to trace those circles in rhino or some program and then cut them out of plywood with a cnc. Due to the large # of circle holes there would be (prolly somewhere in the thousands), it would be extremely impractical for me to trace every one. Is there a way in rhino i can import the circle grid and do some kind of array to convert to a format friendly to a cnc?

[spoiledbrat]

Have you tried to export to corel draw, and then export as a dwg? I am not sure that will work, but that would be my first attempt. Dwg may convert the circles into line drawings.

Let me know if that does not work.

[pointcloud]

Hey that's a great question...

You may be able to make the balls and select all then apply uvn to surface.

I would check here. I remember a question concerning a golf ball, this would be simular. http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forum...forum_id=12371

[HayTay]

iipeacefrog,

You may want to take a look at this thread I started a while back that didn't get too far. You can access it here: Stippling (a.k.a. Pointillism) Program - Adoption needed.

Be sure to check out the two links in my first post. Maybe it'll be enough to get you started on your project?

You wouldn't happen to be a programmer that could take the existing "Stippling" program and massage the code a bit to make it more user and machining friendly, would you???


I hope this inspires you, or someone,

[brianhoopajoo]

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