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More Space Plotting

1 line at a time. Clocking in at around 12 hours per layer, these have been the longest plots I've done so far. Rotring 0.5 Isograph pens and archival yellow, magenta & cyan inks on aquarel paper. #madewithrstr #PlotterArt #PenPlotter #penplotart #generativeart #creativecoding #plottertwitter #axidraw

Plotting Space

Plotting Space 1 line at a time. Clocking in at around 12 hours per layer, these have been the longest plots I've done so far. Rotring 0.5 Isograph pens and archival yellow, magenta & cyan inks on aquarel paper. #madewithrstr #PlotterArt #PenPlotter #penplotart #generativeart #creativecoding #plottertwitter #axidraw

Plotting Broken Gradients

Plotting Broken Gradients 1 line at a time. Rotring 0.5 Isograph pens and archival yellow, magenta & cyan inks on square aquarel paper. #madewithrstr #PlotterArt #PenPlotter #generativeart #creativecoding #plottertwitter #axidraw

Bday Boai

For my birthday I got surprised by my better half @isabellasmedicine with the very first #madewithrstr hoody (to my knowledge). I had absolutely no idea this was coming and I'm very happy with it. It features a picture of our almost 3 year old joint project and I think it looks amazing. Seed planted... 🌱 Anyone else fancy some #madewithrstr apparel? Hit me up! #madewithrstr #bday #noteven45…

James Webb 3

Image from Nasa's James Webb telescope turned into plottable SVG using RSTR. Plotted using my Axidraw SE/A3 with Rotring 0.5 Isograph pens and archival yellow, magenta & cyan inks on A3 aquarel paper. RSTR is a tool I've been working on off and on since Genuary '24. It's free & open source. Go check it out at https://rstr.d17e.dev #madewithrstr #PlotterArt #PenPlotter #generativeart…

James Webb 2

Image from Nasa's James Webb telescope and turned into plottable SVG using RSTR. Plotted using my Axidraw SE/A3 with Rotring 0.5 Isograph pens and archival yellow, magenta & cyan inks on A3 aquarel paper. RSTR is a tool I've been working on off and on since Genuary '24. It's free & open source. Go check it out at https://rstr.d17e.dev #madewithrstr #PlotterArt #PenPlotter #generativeart…

James Webb 1

Image from Nasa's James Webb telescope and turned into plottable SVG using RSTR. Plotted using my Axidraw SE/A3 with Rotring 0.5 Isograph pens and archival yellow, magenta & cyan inks on A3 aquarel paper. RSTR is a tool I've been working on off and on since Genuary '24. It's free & open source. Go check it out at https://rstr.d17e.dev #madewithrstr #PlotterArt #PenPlotter #generativeart…

Broken Gradient 2

Image created in Affinity Photo and turned into plottable SVG using RSTR. Plotted using my Axidraw SE/A3 with Rotring 0.5 Isograph pens and archival yellow, magenta & cyan inks on square aquarel paper. RSTR is a tool I've been working on off and on since Genuary '24. It's free & open source. Go check it out at https://rstr.d17e.dev #madewithrstr #PlotterArt #PenPlotter #generativeart…

Broken Gradient 1

Image created in Affinity Photo and turned into plottable SVG using RSTR. Plotted using my Axidraw SE/A3 with Rotring 0.5 Isograph pens on aquarel paper. RSTR is a tool I've been working on off and on since Genuary '24. It's free & open source. Go check it out at https://rstr.d17e.dev #madewithrstr #PlotterArt #PenPlotter #generativeart #creativecoding #plottertwitter #axidraw

Both plots in detail

Slowing down for Crow's nest station & gloomy sunset skies over Brasa park. #svg #rstr #axidraw #rotring #cmy #d17e #plotterart #kraaiennest #brasa

Crow's Nest

#svg #rstr #axidraw #rotring #cmy #d17e #plotterart #kraaiennest

Revisiting old pals

To try out what the new RSTR could do I decided to revisit some of the older source material... If you recognize these, you've probably been here for a while. Thank you for that :) For everyone else, these are the 2 starting images I decided to ship with RSTR 1.0. Stick around to see how those turned out with RSTR 2.0! #rstr

Scanning...

With all those new business cards, I figured it was worth revisiting the design of the little webpage that accompanies each of these cards... Catch me in the wild and get your own unique card! #d17e #businesscards #notamagritte #qr #bespoke

Stacks o' Cards

Some of these cards are not like the others. #d17e #businesscards #notavermeer #notamagritte

Another one bites the dust

More cards, I tell ya! Now all I need is some business. Speaking of which... Want some fancy business cards? Hit me up! 🔉 Isis - The Other #svg #rstr #axidraw #rotring #cmy #d17e #businesscards #notamagritte

Cutting Cards

This one was always meant to be turned into business cards, though it took me a while to actually 'pull the lever'. I liked it a bit too much to cut it up. But then I plotted something I liked even better... 🔉 Isis - The Beginning and The End #svg #rstr #axidraw #rotring #cmy #d17e #businesscards #notavermeer

Ceci n'est pas un Magritte

🖋️ Rotring Isograph .35 🦑 De Atramentis yellow & magenta, Octopus Fluids blue sloth #svg #rstr #axidraw #rotring #cmy #d17e #plotterart #pasunmagritte

Layering up

Layering up the inks. And the video sources. As one does. 🔉 Rival Consoles - Theme #axidraw #rotring #plotterart #svg #saxi #rstr #resolume #vj #hydractrl

One line at a time

As you might be able to see, the SVGs I generate to plot aren't exactly "optimized". Each line is drawn one after the other. Twice. Once forward. Once backward. They take quite a while to finish. I believe this one clocked in at around 12 hours total plotting time, or about 4 hours per layer. I tried fiddling with settings in the tool that actually talks to the plotter (saxi), but that seemed to…

Got Pearls?

🖋️ Rotring Isograph .35 🦑 De Atramentis yellow & magenta, Octopus Fluids blue sloth #svg #rstr #axidraw #rotring #cmy #d17e #plotterart #notavermeer

Not a Vermeer Again

🔉 Tame Impala - My old ways #svg #rstr #axidraw #rotring #cmy #d17e #plotterart #notavermeer

Revisiting Vermeer

Because, of course. I had to. 🔉 Tame Impala - My old ways #svg #rstr #axidraw #rotring #cmy #d17e #plotterart #notavermeer

Cutting business cards

Each end is its own beginning. 1 face plot gone. 18 bespoke business cards in return. 🔉 Isis - The Beginning and The End #svg #rstr #axidraw #rotring #cmy #d17e #businesscards

Hey there

It's me! :) #svg #rstr #axidraw #rotring #cmy

MC Magenta Cyan

More face plotting. This time layers 2 and 3. Or Magenta and Cyan. 🔉 Moderat - A New Error #svg #rstr #axidraw #rotring #cmy

Plotting new business cards

Around October last year I started getting somewhere with RSTR. I figured new business cards were due to celebrate. But what to put on them? My face, of course! :) here's layer 1 of 3 (yellow). 🔉 Moderat - A New Error #svg #rstr #axidraw #rotring #cmy

A New Error...

A New Era? Perhaps... It definitely feels like one. 🔉 Moderat - A New Error #wip #axidraw

Back in Business

The Mona plot was one in a long series of trials and errors. I ran into several walls and almost gave up on the whole RSTR project a couple of times. During that period, the little army of robots I've got doing my social media bidding decided to go on a strike. Again. I decided that was one strike too many. I was going to re-think & re-implement my setup. I could do with some distraction anyway.…

Mona Pet Plot in Machine Arts Magazine

On February the second I woke up to a very nice surprise. The Mona plot I made for @bantamtools' plotter challenge from October last year got published in their magazine! I guess that makes me a 'published artist' now? 🙊😊 #petplot #machinearts #bantamtools #axidraw #rstr #cmy #deatramentis #octopusfluids #rotring #mona #kooiker #machinearts

Genuary#22: Pen plotter ready

Even though there's no "Genuary Police", I feel like cheating again as I didn't write any code for this one. I didn't even get a magic robot machine in the clouds to write me any code. In stead, for this one, I took a screenshot of the Genuary logo for 2026. (If you haven't checked it out, I can recommend going to genuary.art and clicking the logo at the top so you get see it animated) With that…

Genuary#13+21: Self portrait Bauhaus Poster

How's the self portrait prompt going? Well, I decided to combine my previous effort with the Bauhaus Poster prompt. I made sure to add the 'Clown' bit so you know it's me. #genuary13 #genuary21 #genuary #genuary2026 #generativeart #openrndr #kotlin #javacv #bauhaus

Genuary#13: Self Portrait WIP

I approached this year's edition of Genuary as an opportunity to learn and explore new things. Well, new to me that's to say. Things I had been wanting to play with, but never got around to. I guess that set the scene for me to try out some face detection methods when I thought about the prompt for January 13: Self portrait. Turns out that's not a trivial thing to do within OPENRNDR. There's an…

Genuary#12: Boxes Only

The boxes only prompt seems like a natural fit to explore the rigid body physics that JBox2D has to offer... One could even argue that's very much thinking inside the box. 🥁💥 #genuary12 #genuary #genuary2026 #generativeart #openrndr #kotlin #jbox2d #rigidbody

Genuary#05: Write "Genuary". Avoid using a font.

More soft bodies for Genuary#05... Wrote Genuary ✅ Didn't use a font ✅ Confetti 🎉 #genuary5 #genuary #genuary2026 #generativeart #openrndr #kotlin #jbox2d #softbody

Genuary#02: 12 Principles of Animation

When I read 'animation', I thought 'soft body physics'... cause why animate it if you can let a physics engine do the work? Right?... For this year's Genuary I decided to try out the creative coding framework OPENRNDR. It was mostly the talk by Abe Pazos on his experience with it over the past five years that tipped me over the edge, though a big added bonus was the fact that it's written in…

Happy 2026

Happy New Year Everybody!! Out with 2025 and in with 2026 🥳 I still have a bunch of plots to share that I made last year, but that's still going to have to wait for a little while. Why is that? Well, it's Genuary again, of course! I'm off to a slow start, but a start nonetheless! I'm also cheating a bit as I'm reusing my little rstr trick from last year. But I can 100% guarantee that there's just…

Plotting Mona

Mona plot in the making. Audio from the exquisite MNMT#456 set by Efdemin #plotterart #petplot #machinearts #bantamtools #axidraw #rstr #cmy #deatramentis #octopusfluids #rotring #mona #kooiker #efdemin #mnmt456

Welcome to the purple room

We are here to guide you. Mona plot in the making. Audio from the exquisite MNMT#456 set by Efdemin #plotterart #petplot #machinearts #bantamtools #axidraw #rstr #cmy #deatramentis #octopusfluids #rotring #mona #kooiker #efdemin #mnmt456

RSTR CMY Pet Plot Detail

Mona up close... #petplot #machinearts #bantamtools #axidraw #rstr #cmy #deatramentis #octopusfluids #rotring #mona #kooiker

RSTR CMY Pet Plot

The pet plot challenge by @bantamtools was the perfect opportunity to take new CMY (WIP) version of RSTR for a spin. It turns an image into 3 layers of cyan, magenta and yellow SVG lines, or hatchings if you will. I have to thank the community over at the Bantam Tools Discord for their advice on pen sizes and inks to work out the kinks in my process. And while I'm at it, I'd like thank…

Bassline

Trumpets 🎺 #svg #plotterart #vermeer #notmyface #cmyk

And one of these days

It's gonna plot all over you. #svg #plotterart #myface #cmyk

This tool was made for plotting

And that's just what it'll do... #svg #plotterart #myface #cmyk

RSTR 2.0 WIP

#RSTR2.0 #WIP #SVG

RSTR 2.0 WIP

#RSTR2.0 #WIP #SVG

RSTR 2.0 WIP

#RSTR2.0 #WIP #SVG

Hatched Tetrominoes

Of course we can't have RSTR2.0 (wip) without hatchings.... This time around though, I wanted to experiment with creating color through layering. In stead of me picking a color, colors could be created organically. Or siliconally. I guess. #creativecoding #SVG #RSTR2.0 #WIP

Tetrominofaced

If you've ever wondered what my face would look like in tetrominoes, this could be it. What are tetrominoes? Well, they're Tetris (c) shapes. (see what they did there?! the (c) is for clever) What 2 is to dominoes. 4 is to tetrominoes. ... something something something waterhose #creativecoding #SVG #RSTR2.0 #WIP

I can't feel my face

But I love it. #creativecoding #SVG #RSTR2.0 #WIP

While we're at it. Again.

Let's revisit this RSTR classic, shall we? The same very very early version of RSTR 2.0 as the previous post. I say 2.0, while in fact, RSTR itself was the second iteration on an idea that started as a Genuary sketch prompt honoring the late and great Vera Molnar in 2024. So I guess this is v3? ... Third time's a charm? It's funny how some things are stickier than others. #rstr #svg…