Plotter Fun

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[@meleknikita]

«I have an irrational fear of frontend frameworks» You are not alone.

[@tiggerbiggo]

It's definitely not irrational to avoid those kinds of things, it gives me headaches just thinking about javascript... ugh...

[@Yorie1234]

their usefulness is largely dependent on how much you use Javascript. if you use JavaScript on a (near) daily basis, a framework can save a lot of time, and after you learn to use it the code for less simple things can be more readable. but it takes some time to get used to a framework, so if you are not using js a lot, you probably won't make that time back before the framework you learned is out of date, or the world realizes that it has some design flaw.

[@laurenpinschannels]

no, seriously, you are not alone, a frontend framework is standing right behind you raising a webpack over its head, run!

[@laurenpinschannels]

also, more seriously: javascript frameworks tend to be a pain because of how much paving over they usually have to do. react is really nice to work with, but it takes a bunch of layers of dumb stuff to get it to work in all browsers. preact is much faster and simpler just from throwing away some compatibility - in the future it's imaginable that we'll get back to being able to compile and run things a bit more sanely while keeping the benefits of web frameworks, but right now you need to stand on this giant tower of webpack, babel, npm, and etc in order to get the full benefits of the current most featureful, active, and quick-to-write-code-in ui ecosystems. I'm really excited about the future of react hook style apis, though, and I'm hopeful for the day that something like that is easy to do with a similar level of compatibility but without the tie to a particular language or environment.

[@meinradrecheis895]

although, to VUE's credit, it is probably one of the easiest to use. but yeah, it gave me lots of headaches at first too

[@visekual6248]

how strange, I don't remember subscribing to this channel, but it seems interesting enough

[@lonenexus959]

I subscribed for the small ass midi synth video

[@StarIgop]

Me too

[@SSJVNN]

Same! After looking back I realized I subscribed after watching the "AI in brainfuck" video

[@ogranesson]

Same here! After I looked, I realized I had subscribed after the stylophone business card video.

[@insertyoutubenamehere4160]

Same

[@p4tr1ck18]

Your audio... It's unique. It vibrates my phone more than most and was clear even from 10 feet away!

[@mopedguy1064]

its because the youtube audio attenuation has been set to 0 dB so it doesn't lower the audio automatically like in other videos.

[@p4tr1ck18]

@@mopedguy1064 I don't understand what to ask Google about that. Can you clarify or say even more?

[@lijauju]

@@p4tr1ck18 I think they mean that the volume of the audio doesn't fluctuate!

[@gooosean]

you can name squigglecam "THE JOY DIVISION STYLE IMAGE GENERATOR"

[@edgeeffect]

.... or the Jocylen Bell Pulsar image generator! ;)

[@OrchidAlloy]

"It's like a 3D printer in 2D!" Accurate

[@thromboid]

I've always thought 3D printers should be called 3D plotters. :)

[@mischiefthedegenerateratto7464]

@@thromboid no one cares tho

[@wesleymays1931]

It's a 3D printer, in 2D. But it's not a printer. If that's not vague enough, make it like you're trying to...

[@xenotronia6681]

@@mischiefthedegenerateratto7464 you must be fun at parties

[@CarloRoosen]

I assume these comments are meant as playful jokes.

[@WangleLine]

I forgot I was subscribed to this channel

[@slaughterround643]

same but I'm glad I am

[@crnkmnky]

🛎️ Just subscribed to WangleLine without listening first. Your channel looks marvelous! 😍

[@Sandwich4321]

I forgot this channel existed

[@GolIden]

@@crnkmnky simp

[@deanerdaweiner3829]

i LOVE what you did for the new rotmg soundtrack, thanks for working on it!

[@Stjaernljus]

Now all we need is someone to put a tattoo gun on a plotter.

[@Rotem_S]

A power outage would not be fun

[@scorpionblade4112]

Dont move lol

[@mfaizsyahmi]

I got news: It's already been made by colinfurze and Tom Scott (yes, that Tom Scott!) here's the video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ep-vdnppoLyGodE

[@fswarrior9510]

That is the.... actually good idea 💡

[@dafoex]

Tom Scott, Colin Furze, and Charles Yarnold tried something similar at one point

[@TheWilsonChannel]

_"it's written in vue.js"_ Finally, my time has come

[@Fraptab]

You are a very interesting and intelligent content maker and I appreciate what you're doing. I really enjoy your videos, as they inspire me to continue working on my own creative endeavors! I think about how much work has gone into some of these videos and how motivated and committed you are in each one and I suddenly realize how badly I procrastinate. The video-game console you built was the thing that really helped me get perspective. ...and you didn't even spend more that a week on programming the games for them to turn out so well. ;-; That makes me want to buckle down and learn to code in C# like I have been meaning to do. You are a positive influence in this world and I hope you keep making videos.

[@mralowen]

Im a land surveyor, I use my plotter every day, and I've never thought of doing something like this. This was fantastic , well done

[@mfbfreak]

Ooh, this looks so cool! I've always had a soft spot for plotters, but never had the space for one, nor have the knowledge to make them work...

[@TesserId]

"Naturally, the fist thing I plotted was a picture of a ball-point pen." 1:25 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Mediamarked]

Pulled my Silhouette Cameo from its dark hiding place yesterday, sitting there as a dustr trap since 2014. Cut some vinyl stickers for my moped with it, now this shows up in my recommended feed. Going to try the squiggles on some reflective vinyl, using a pointy piece of wood in the pen mount.. Btw, on the plotter, you could add double cuts for gradients, using a pencil instead of a ballpoint pen. In 2013, I did a full colour print with a plotter, of a cell shaded scene on A4. If you heard some inexplainable cursing in Dutch that year, that was because of that.. Spent 3 weeks on 1 A4, iirc 11-12 tries. Also, if you can plot again, try pencils in the penholder. Scan a written letter, see how good it translates onto a copy.. Took some tries but at the end, looked exactly like the original..

[@MePeterNicholls]

I once knew a kid who drew with a biro as if it was a plotter. Incredible art.

[@Aaron_b_c]

Editing minified code over changing it at the source? You are a madman

[@sinom]

Been a while since you last uploaded (And yes plotters are cool)

[@SteveBakerIsHere]

My father used to make vinyl signs (big lettering) - and I wrote a program to do the trick of cutting horizontal strips of varying width depending on image density. Result was a vinyl cut that you could stick on a store-front window at massive size. Seen from a distance, it looked like a photo - but when you got close to it, it barely blocked your view of the product on display behind the window. I went on to make vinyl cuts with dots of varying sizes and other stuff like that. It made him a good deal of money about 30 years ago.

[@jaythomas3180]

Having used all those JS frameworks professionally, Vue is probably the least mentally harmful component library of them. I hesitate to even call it a framework it's so small and vanilla. Certainly no more daunting than web workers. ;)

[@iAmTheSquidThing]

Yes. I have not got on well with React or Angular. Vue seems quite usable though. It has a gentle learning curve and mostly stays out of your way.

[@edgeeffect]

Love the music.... very "late 60s, early 70s".... I expected Huggy Bear to walk past in his new flares.

[@ThompYT]

why do I remember watching this video way before it came out?

[@lackmou]

„its like an 3D printer, but in 2D“ *sad regular Printer noises*

[@WetDoggo]

This is like a 2D printer 😍👌

[@earumamaadu]

This is the quality content I subscribed for 7 months ago.

[@nobodynoone2500]

Thats about what I did when I got my 3dprinter. Printed a pen holder and then rendered, plotted and drew Mr. J.R. "Bob" Dobbs himself. May the slack be upon you.

[@hernancoronel]

KZbin should have the awesome category and it should promote those videos to your timeline no matter what! This channel would definitely be in that category for me! Thank you mitxela!

[@Nono-hk3is]

An algorithm that plots out images in the style of mid-twentieth century printed comic books and newspaper comic strips. The tricky part would be mapping millions of colors to the 64 shades that were available thanks to the printing technology of the time. Well, i guess the trickiest part is getting the alignment right for three passes of color. But even the professional printers had that problem once in a while.

[@Selicre]

"It is the most platform-agnostic language on the planet" Webassembly enters the competition.

[@AshesOfEther]

WebAssembly depends on JS.

[@Selicre]

@@AshesOfEther It doesn't. You can very much use it standalone, including on embedded hardware, and compiled to C.

[@gotpies]

There is a plotted Tamar and Chicken :O Your plotting music really slaps. I live in hope that some day they will be a whole Mitxela album.

[@vernonzehr]

Good god man! Holy cow! This isn't just for plot printing. This can be used for digitial artwork. If only it could be a photoshop filter. One of the most difficult things to get right is turning photographs into what appear to be hand engraved line art without spending a fortune on commercial photoshop add ons. Or making photos look hand drawn. I suppose it wouldn't be impossible to turn this into a photoshop filter, or even better an Illustrator filter. For now I will be experimenting importing SVG and layering different results.

[@Ra11y]

ive never had a video with lthis few views be recommended to me before and it was worth it

[@NithinJune]

ahh yes time to convert my 3d printer into a ploter

[@JoejoeReference]

OKAY KZbin, I'LL WATCH THE VIDEO IF YOU REALLY THINK IT'S WORTH RECOMMENDING 1 MILLION TIMES

[@microdesigns2000]

I don't know about windows 10, but windows 7 had HPGL drivers so you could plot from any application. It was awesome.

[@hxhdfjifzirstc894]

You could make something cool by using a needle in the plotter with stipple plotting on black paper. Then shine a light from behind. Lamp shades, maybe.

[@VioletScarelli]

Jeez this thing sounds so cool-

[@DanBowkley]

I played with this some when I was a kid, we had an actual HP pen plotter that used felt tip pens and I noticed that if I accidentally left the pen down it'd wick ink into the paper and make a giant blob....and decided I could use this to my advantage. And I did, albeit very badly. I'd do a PR but I suspect submitting it in BASIC probably wouldn't be all that useful.

[@alexismandelias]

"JavaScript is the most platform-agnostic language" *Java is sweating*

[@JOELwindows7]

0:00 Guinea Pig Plotter This is your daily dose of Recommendation

[@forresto]

I've been playing with algos for photo to embroidery... the vanilla web worker framework you have shared seems like a nice way to set it up.

[@lilyrooney]

It would be cool to have an onionlayer thing on your interface, so you can have 1 image with multiple plotted effects. like, This is the highlight layer and its got this effect, then the midtones have this layer and effect, then the basetones are on this layer and stippled. But it'd probably be more effort than it's worth to fiddle around fine tuning that or finding the right way to filter the image cohesively

[@davidallen5146]

I was playing with HPGL plotter art while working at HP in the early '90s. I was mostly producing fractals and giant mazes.

[@isaacbunsen5833]

2:01 like my irrational fear of web backend apps. Running on things such as Node. _shivers_

[@KolossosDD]

Thanks a lot for the Video and the code. We use it in our hackspace. Inside Inkscape we use gcode-tools to generate GCODE. So we can use a XPlotter device (Kickstarter project). It would be also possible to "misuse" a 3d-printer.

[@adnninadnnin7967]

На швейном предприятии стоял широкий старый плоттер 1986 года с чернильницей. И однажды когда я менял банку с чернилами без замены стержня (отсоединив трубку) произшло чудо: теплая сопля чернил притянулась вверх электростатическим полем пластиковой крышки плоттера, и бесконечно растягиваясь и вращаясь из за вязкости стала прилипать каракуляими к поверхности как будто Бог решил оставить афтограф. Есть фото! At the sewing company there was a wide old plotter of 1986 with an inkwell. And one day when I was changing the ink jar without replacing the rod (disconnecting the tube), a miracle happened: a warm snot of ink was pulled up by the electrostatic field of the plastic cover of the plotter, and infinitely stretching and rotating due to viscosity, the scribble began to stick to the surface as if God had decided to leave the aftograph. There are photos! cdn.jpg.wtf/futurico/8b/b6/1397247927-8bb6b21da78cbd880972779a9656ab70.jpeg cdn.jpg.wtf/futurico/ed/30/1397247926-ed306ac85c7c2702fbf2599ec7b31551.jpeg cdn.jpg.wtf/futurico/6d/c2/1418208901-6dc215a893d601bdbb3c7108208fbc5e.jpg cdn.jpg.wtf/futurico/c3/1a/1397248690-c31a84329a9780d75edb6071c1d364df.jpeg

[@miszt0]

I forgot that I'm subscribed, but I'm glad I am

[@dancoffeyuk]

I'd love to see more (stills or video) of your plotting escapades? Will give your Plotter Fun a whirl tomorrow!

[@alexbrown1050]

C is more platform agnostic when you consider the microelectronics and computer you're working on were likely mostly written in C.

[@Mikelectric]

OMG I MISS THE HACK SPACE, i would go there so much when i was staying in london

[@jimday666]

This was some awesome! Bookmarked that page.

[@mikeydk]

I need to play around with this! I used squigglecam to make a tribute to Grant Imahara, drawing a picture of him with a little robot, this opens some exciting new ways of drawing!

[@jlnrdeep]

Fun fact you can turn your 3D printer to a plotter by printing an attachement to hold the pen and voila! ... 3D plotter fun!

[@flomojo2u]

Really sad I had to throw out two HP pen plotters when moving, they were the closest thing to a robot I had ever seen prior to 3D printers becoming a thing. Amazing when they ran at full, blistering speed, impossible to follow with your eyes unless it was drawing long lines. Unfortunately they only took these rare, HP-specific pens, and even new-old stock in mylar envelopes were dried up. A 3D printer would have been a lifesaver, as it had 7 bays for different colors that could have been amazing.

[@cmapez]

"Like a 3d printer but 2d"... So a printer.

[@andrewsutton6640]

Not sure if this will help, but occasionally lifting the pen tip and/or rotating it for the squiggles or whatever else is building up ink might help

[@nicolasuribe5080]

"3D printing, but in 2D".... I think you have rediscovered normal printing

[@chrizor]

Thanks for making/sharing the app! Super easy to use and very responsive. It's fun just to use on its own.

[@edgeeffect]

A fear of front end frameworks isn't irrational.... it's decidedly RATIONAL... trust me, by day I'm a web developer ..... I know!

[@MarinusMakesStuff]

Awesome, thanks for sharing. I am building my own plotters and I always am lacking good generators. Would this program be usable offline you think? -edit- nevermind, I sorted it out. What a wonderful piece of work!!!

[@theaveragedolphin7995]

this would be what that try hard kid uses instead of prinjters "Oh I dont use printers, I use plotters"

[@blackferrets820]

this is just a fancy printer

[@kotes19]

Who else had this video randomly recommended to them?

[@TheAechBomb]

not totally random but yeah

[@CarloRoosen]

Yeah and this time I like it

[@Tims_Projects]

Very nicely done, glad it was all put together into one place. I have signed up to your forum and placed a link to what I have done so far.

[@boelwerkr]

Old (second/third generation) x/y Plotter only support a subset of HPGL. They especially omitted all interpolation stuff like filled polygons, Bézierkurves and such. (my guess i that the processors didn't have enough power to do so). They have also very little memory. You have to send chunks and insert "return codes" to know when to send the next chunk. I run in that problem a few years ago. So i had to write some code to convert HPGL into a suitable format. I wanted to print circuit boards with etch resistant ink. Because my plotter was so old and the pens so expensive i had to make my own pen holder. But i've "run out of time", it all got shelved as something "i will finish it alter"... While experimenting i wrote some programs to explore Lindenmayer systems. (the dragon curve by example). :-) Paying with multi x/y penplotter is really fun.

[@denishegemann6177]

Wow. This is just SO cool! Now I want a plotter.

[@ltva8781]

It's so big, expensive and noisy, but I want one too. To do FEAKIN BIG A0 CMYK PLOT

[@AiOinc1]

This was more interesting than the synthesizer

[@NilesBlackX]

Well. Guess I'm subscribing to this channel.

[@dubsar]

if you add rotation to the pen it might help with blobs.

[@buxzed]

I miss the plotter. can't wait for the hackspace to open

[@darkmann12]

I can't remember why I initially subscribed to you but I'm glad I have :)

[@icychill105]

I have a cutter/plotter and used a couple of the programs, glad to see someone combined them in one place so i can goof around more with it

[@Merlinkatamari]

Very coool :3 now i wish i had picked up the old hp din A0 printer that was offerd to me .....

[@adamdapatsfan]

Finally, someone else who hates frontend js frameworks

[@deppy2165]

"love or hate javascript, it is the most platform agnostic language on the planet" I am going to explode.

[@LuciSheppy]

Plotter music when

[@lilith_linda]

So cool!! How I wasn't subscribed to this channel yet?

[@lorlimann]

Omg this is such an amazing tool!

[@sekritdokumint9326]

Thank you for my next art project idea

[@blank-re8qv]

this is cool i can't wait to try it

[@dhoffnun]

[ NOW IS CUTTING ! ]

[@DoctorNemmo]

Remember, remember, the fifth of november.

[@hulkgqnissanpatrol6121]

I've used that site a few times and love it. Do you have any future updates coming?

[@kimmy_future4265]

You should name the plotter Harry.

[@UCapdo2lj2Av-r57nhYMZLyQ]

I forgot who you were and why I was subbed to you but I'm not disappointed.

[@alschnittke]

Fantastic! This video have very Tom7-esque vibes. Keep up the great work!

[@GregorShapiro]

WOW! Can I get these algorithms to draw interpretations in Inkscape?

[@cupofdirtfordinner]

*Casually gone for 8 months like nothing happened*

[@2k7u]

"It's like a 3D printer but in 2D!" So a printer?

[@Saleca]

Yes synths ! Just subscribed to flash waiting list

[@therealawesomequest]

I preffer this over synthesisers.

[@UltimatePerfection]

Be careful, it's plotting against you.

[@cyberlaurent2101]

You're a genious ! Merci beaucoup.

[@Encysted]

This is amazing

[@llscandgalaxy750]

I hope your channel grows!

[@icaezart]

Please do an algorithm that can scribble with just one line!

[@boris2342]

The plot thickens

[@Albin_Evald]

wow this is genius

[@runforitman]

I couldn't imagine using a non-gcode compatible cnc machine

[@Supertimegamingify]

>needing to invoke it from the command line is a chore. Not at all, you just need to write one _tiny_ script. And then maybe another small script to invoke from the other one. And then maybe get a bit better at writing bash efficiently. And then mayb-

[@JacksonTravel]

well done

[@coppurt]

I'd love an update on this!