SVG Pattern generator saves as SVG, JPG, PNG
Design beautiful patterns from endless variations. With PatternPad you can create unlimited unique pattern designs that fit your style. Ideal for branding, presentations, social media posts or customizing products.
Turtletoy allows you to create generative art using a minimalistic javascript Turtle graphics API. You can only create black-and-white line drawings on a square canvas. By offering a very restrictive environment we not only hope to stimulate creativity, we also make sure that the turtles can (at least theoretically) be plotted using a simple plotter.
Each turtle can be exported as SVG, suitable for high-res printing or a plotter.
This is the software I use to control my custom built pen plotter, it may look a little dated but the power behind it gives amazing control over my machine. GRBL-Plotter is a graphic converter and gcode sender for all purposes. The main focus is on the post-processing of vector graphics, the specialty is the preparation of the generated Gcode
Pen plotter tools and articles
A small selection of the tools created and collected by Rev Dan Catt.
Dan is an artist who I greatly admire, from his ability to write compelling informative text to his wonderful ability to create amazing art. He uses both code and a plotter to present the type of art that I quite enjoy.
A minimalist generative art thing – press the buttons and play with the sliders. Find out.
Warning: This tool is capable of creating some very complex and beautiful designs. These designs can be made up of thousands of line segments which will take a very long time to plot if not optimized.
9 Tips to execute generative art with a plotter
In this essay, Tyler gives you his top tips to executing generative art with a plotter. As a long-time generative artist, most of these findings are a result of his own personal trial and error with pen plotters.
This tool helps you turn pictures into halftoned patterns of lines, dots, and circles. These can be saved to TXT or SVG files to send to your pen plotter, or just saved as simple images.
a platform for research design that aims on the development of design knowledge through generative drawings made with code.
In general, thedotisblack focuses on simple rules in code that utilize basic design principles that can be overlapped, merged or used for further development.
This website was created by @anvaka. It shows elevation with ridgelines for anywhere on Earth.
The output can be saved in SVG and PNG formats.
An online SVG Vector Graphics Generator.
The SVG Generator was written by Simon Heimler in 2011. It was created as a project for the University of applied Science Augsburg in the subject Multimedia-Programming.
A collection of simple, tileable SVG patterns.
You can also download each pattern as a standalone .svg file. This makes it easily usable as a background-image in CSS. We can't reference patterns as background images from inline SVG in CSS (yet). But there is also the option to use a sprite, that utlizes the element to allow accessing a single pattern with a URL Fragment Identifier.
An SVG generator for wavy background shape patterns.
A generative art tool to make wavy and chaotic repeated shape background patterns and export them as SVG files. Tweak the settings until you get a style that fits what you need. When using the SVG export for plotting the solid colour option works best. There are links to several other SVG tools on this page, if you scroll down.
This is a six sided self mirroring Affinity Designer template that I personally created. You can easily draw a mandala with the vector pencil or pen tool, using this template. Each section of the mandala is drawn live in real time as you draw on only one of the sections. The final image can then be exported as an SVG or any other format that Affinity designer has available. The link takes you to a download of the original empty file ready for you to use in your own designs.
DrawingBotV3 is a software for converting images to line drawings for Plotters / Drawing Machines / 3D printers. It also serves as an application for visual artists to create stylised line drawings from images / video.
There are two versions, Free and Premium. Both versions are available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
An SVG generator project by @bleeptrack
You can choose between a colored flower or a lineart style. The lineart style can be used for pen plotters or other vector tracing machines like laser cutters.
Additionally, you can choose between a complete flower or a boxed version, where the flower is placed in a rectangle. You can also shuffle colors current colors, get random new colors or get a random new shape.
The Swiss Army Knife of Vector Graphics Scripting.
Paper.js is an open source vector graphics scripting framework that runs on top of the HTML5 Canvas. It offers a clean Scene Graph / Document Object Model and a lot of powerful functionality to create and work with vector graphics and bezier curves, all neatly wrapped up in a well designed, consistent and clean programming interface.
An SVG generator project by @ixelsart
This tool is coded in P5.js using the SVG library allowing for saving SVG files. There are several sliders to play with, along with a color option check box
The code explores Algorithmic botany called Phyllotaxis
