Could you post the information on Spirograph curves again.  I think I 
could use this kind of decoration.

Thanks,
Craig

On 5/17/2010 10:50 AM, Andrew wrote:
> Hi Kirk,
>
> Yes, this is really just for providing surface decoration; screens, room
> dividers or box lids come to mind. Converting it to 3d could be an
> interesting challenge !
>
> Cheers,
> Andy.
>
> On Monday 17 May 2010, Kirk Wallace wrote:
>    
>> On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 11:11 +0100, Andrew wrote:
>>      
>>> Hmm, well my webstats say there have been over 200 unique visits to the
>>> spirograph page, but as yet not a single comment....
>>>
>>> Can anybody give me some feedback, good or bad :)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Andy.
>>>        
>> I certainly don't want to discourage your effort, but I suppose no one
>> has found the need for your application, yet. I know when I have a need
>> for your application, I will be making a pest of myself.
>>
>> In briefly considering how I might try to use your application, it seems
>> that in its current form, one would be limited to engraving fine lines
>> on a flat surface. What might be interesting would be to use the current
>> path to come up with a three dimensional surface. Perhaps, use the
>> original path as it is, then change Z with parallel paths. On the other
>> hand, converting the path to an image, using GIMP to shade it, then
>> using the image-to-g-code filter in the .ini file could be another way,
>> but this would rasterize the surface.
>>      
>
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