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Re:Show HN: Tool that turns your images into plotter-like li... by why55 on Thursday May 20, 2021 @08:54PM (#27229329)
Needs more turtles. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_graphics
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Re:Show HN: Tool that turns your images into plotter-like li... by chriswarbo on Friday May 21, 2021 @05:54AM (#27232151)
Many years ago I wrote a program to convert images into Python scripts containing "turtle" commands. It's mostly a "cheat" based on "penup" and "GOTO(x, y)", but it can certainly be extended with smarter routing and optimisation algorithms: http://chriswarbo.net/projects/turtleview
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