Drawing Machine II
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2024
- A stepper motor driven drawing machine that creates complex guilloché patterns. Guilloché is the word used to describe intricate repetitive patterns often used in security printing and fine metal working. The machine uses three micro-step motors that are controlled by a program written in PureData. Careful control of the motor speed ratios and positioning of the pen arms results in complex patterns. Some of the best patterns are the result of setting the speeds very near but not quite on specific harmonic relationships. The pen traces a Lissajous curve and the paper rotates beneath the pen, thus tracing out the complex pattern.
The patterns take from 10 minutes to an hour to create.
The patterns look like flowing fabric, I can't get over how beautiful these look.
THIS. WAS. NOT. FINISHED. YET!
*ocd rage*
IT. IS. WHAT. IT. IS.
*hfa ignorance*
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Wow... These look stunning, the large single black ones look like starling murmurations. Beautiful.
I was a little disturbed by the non finished nature of them but I guess when you close them off they 'just' look like circles. Whereas when they aren't finished you can see the structure.
Great !!!
Beautiful work! My heart melted when I saw your use of the magnets to place the arm spindles, and to fix the paper on the turntable. How lovely. Had some offerings though on how to make the flow smoother: you could also set the arms a bit higher on their spindles, and fix their heights. They seem to interfere with the flow. Also, maybe shave the underneath wheels - it would seem their width would create torc, although give stability. A narrower wheel (pointed edge?) , and canted (at a tilt) to the exact center, might yield a smoother roll.
I too loved the Spirograph I had as a child. A revelation, not overcome. Maybe that is why I love ice skating.
Hoot-Nanny! - this is mesmerizing. Thanks Craig!
Really nice engineering solving the wide rotating bearing problem with the casters, ...i.e. a lazy Susan bearing. Very nice build. Thanks.
I love the three-dimensionality these Drawings creates!
I love the understatement and lack of emotion during the pan up of the scale
Dear Mr. Craig Newswanger:
Could you tell me the speeds (or rpm) that you have used in the X, Y and Z axes to get the drawing that you see at minute 7:30?
Thank you very much and greetings
I'm afraid that OCD folks will not be satisfied since the pattern can not "complete" since the three separate motor controllers are not synchronized. Very small inaccuracies in the speeds of the motors prevent the end of the line from connecting to the beginning. I could spend $800 on a new motor controller to solve this.
photonflood heck, even if it didn't reconnect, I would have at least been fine with it *looking* like it was completed lol
you could also set the arms a bit higher on their spindles, and fix their heights. They seem to interfere with the flow. Also, maybe shave the underneath wheels - it would seem their width would create torc, although give stability. A narrower wheel and canted (at a tilt) might yield a smoother roll.
Such fabulous production. Congratulations, Craig.
Well designed and well built. An almost unheard of combination today. Beautiful instrument!
Amazing! Your machine makes 2D look 3D. Outstanding sir!
Use a computer program to instantaneously see what what kind of pattern all the variables will create and if you like what you see then you can spend the time to 'print' it.
Hi! Really love your creation! It gives me an idea ... I've used PureData a bit for making music, and I wonder if you could use something like a sequencer to continuously vary the parameters of the motors in a musical pattern ... you could conceivable write a sequence that would draw a face, or still-life, or infinite receding copies... it would also be interesting to control the parameters with notes from music, you could find some classical duets and have one rotor for each instrument ... basically my mind is on fire with ideas after watching your awesome vid. Thanks for sharing.
Nice video but I hate te hardtechno music in the background in 5:30 .
There is no music in the background at 5:30, just the machine sound !
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Thanks for all the comments!
The Pilot pens will typically work for a few drawings depending on the density. You do have to keep the speed down or they will die in minutes. You can imagine that little ball spinning at quite a high speed!
It takes all weekend to make a drawing but the result is worth it. Cool device.
Hi, you should consider exhibiting this work at JMM Joint Math Meeting next year. There are a bunch of mathematical artists exhibiting there every year. Also Bridges conference with Math architecture and art. There are a bunch of mathematical artists absolutely who would love to see this work. If you can't attend in person you can still exhibit the work. It is COOL!!
absolutely astounding!! Have you ever given any thought to using anything other than pens?? Airbrushes, etc?? You are already making unbelievable images but I can just imagine how far you could take this machine.... WOW!!!
... an airbrush with an actuator would allow you to turn the pen on and off as well... cool idea
Just met the man at the Austin mini Maker Faire! Awesome!!
It is of course, but it is rather complex. I am quite happy not previsualizing the patterns. The equation or algorithm is in the simple mechanics. The practical way to compute the pattern is to solve a set of triangles at a fixed time interval. I'll leave it to someone else to solve.
Thanks for the comment.
I admire the engineering here, especially the load-bearing solution and the magnetic positioning system. As I'm sure you have realized, it would have been better to counter-sink the screw-heads affixing the plate to the turntable (or just glue the thing) rather than obstruct the placement of the magnetic puck. Super-impressive overall. Thanks for posting this.
why didn't you finish it. OCD OVERLOAD
I love the unfinished part - it shown how it was formed. Finishedm you would nto be able to decipher it!
That is SOOOOO COOL! Great job programming and presenting.
Did you modulate the motor speeds during those last drawings? You could probably make it draw whatever you want using clever programming, or am I wrong?
Kinda right, kinda wrong. You could, but then you would just be trying to create a printer essentially that rotated the gears so to print in certain parts of the page based on the image.
But the point here is just that insane cool patterns can be created with a couple mechanical processes.
i think it could be done, it's a bit like how you can make images with an oscilloscope
Pilot G2, excellent pen choice.
Really Cool engineering to create Beautiful Art! Very Cool!
This is just absolutely amazing...
You have inspired me to build one of my own.
Way to go! These are phenomenal!
just brilliant. Great Idea. cheers for upliading
thats actually really cool
Sir what type of out come do you get if you rotate the base paper clock wise continuesly and move the pen in linear motion . I'm waiting to see the end result
Well done. Tnx for sharing.
Cool creation, and nicely done video! I like the resulting "artworks."
lotta thought went in to this. nice a 3-d guy myself. cool as heck
so elegantly beautiful, love this craig!!
Just found this video. Fascinating. I will attempt to build my own. Did you have any problems with heat build-up in the pen tip from prolonged friction with the paper? Did fibres from the paper cling to the pen tip? What if the rotating paper could move in two additional horizontal axes at 45 degrees to the pen arms?
5:00 is where you finally get to see the machine draw.
Thank you, kind soul.
Wow, I'm in awe, what I wouldn't do to own one of them. Spirograph was my all time favourte toy when I was a child. This is awesome. For sale??
Here is www.3dmaxprinter.com/shop/do-it-youself/polar-pen-drawing-machine-plotter-arduino-diy-kit/
Well done, excellent work!
Good.
I need to know wich servo motor controlers did you you used?
How is the serial comunication with the pc, arduino?
If I knew where your studio was located, I would be looking for discarded prints in your trash barrel. This looks more like art than science. It appears that when you change the setting, you are hoping for the best without being able to exactly predict what will be the outcome. Fun and frustration in one big toy. If you slow down the pace and introduce a third dimension (vertical lift) you will have a 3D printer. Instead of a pen, you can use a 3 D Printing Pen.
Wouldn't what you've printed be in the way of the pen?
Erik l My first reaction is: "Not if the altitude of the pen keeps going up (by the thickness of the plastic filament) with each revolution. Then I realized that even with the 2 dimensional machine, a 3 D printing pen can be used if the pen is allowed to rotate (swing) sideways to lift the tip each time it makes contact with a hardened plastic line. One can say that the swing will be in the direction opposite to the motion of the rotating platter and tangent to the line being drone (or something like that).
Once you have the swinging pen, you can also raise that pen. Before you know it you will be building half domes etc. Please tell me about whatever I misunderstood. Thanks!
Generatorblue Generator blues didn't think of moving the pen up and drawing in layers, and I don't see why it wouldn't work. What I'm wondering though is if it would look like many 2D drawings on top of each other or the 'repeating pattern that is slightly different each revolution' kind of thing in all three dimensions. Couldn't you also draw it on a computer and print it with a 3D printer?
Erik l do not own a 3D printer or a 3D printing pen. However I spent years working with a hot glue gun. A 3D printing pen is identical to a hot glue gun except for the fact that the plastic hardens faster than hot glue. I assume that some 3D printing pens do not depend on movements of a finger on a trigger to output more filaments. I assume that some of them have a motor to advance the filament. Feel free to educate me about 3D printers. As long as the filaments are more rigid than silly strings, the geometric integrity of the design will be preserved.
Generatorblue Generator blues I'm not doubting the functionality of 3D printing pens, all I'm saying is that drawing from the bottom to the top wouldn't be like how the 2D drawings in the video are made which consequently give them their look. Sorry if that doesn't make any sense, I find it hard to explain. I'm no expert in 3D printing but basically you build the object from the bottom to the top, layer by layer, adding layers of powdery material that you bind together in certain places. The objects you can make can really look however you want as long as the material can hold its own weight
good job! very inspiring, i love it to imagine these figures were 3d models. keep on :D
genius and very nice to watch
the way the intervales would work, if it was changed in to #s. it would be something like this: 1,1,2,1,2,2,3,2,3,3,4,3,4,4,5,4,5,5,6,5,6,6,7,6,7,7. and so on. the doubles would be one gear and the rest would be the other. controling how it looks.
wow, watching this makes me smile :)
What would the result be without the 3rd motor rotating the drawing surface?
I did the same thing with a comm 64 years ago only diff was I used a dremel tool to cut the pattern ,an adult Spirograph,I did all the programing in BASIC,If you look in old Circuit cellar mags you will find all the instructions,nowdays a pen plotter will do the same thing....WCH
So beautiful, thanks
Really cool stuff
These outcomes are very architectural,
Wow - so beautiful!!! Love that you're using Ubuntu - I led the visual design and actually designed the dark theme you're running there :)
Very cool! Love Ubuntu.
Good aplication, excelent i try it, congratulations, thanks,!!
Very cool! Love that the simple parts work together to produce something beautiful.
Also really cool to see you using Linux.
Beautiful work!!! Would you be willing to share your PD patches? I'd love to see how you set things up! Cheers.
good take
Beautiful!
hey man itls look fantastic, i not have much knowment of the programing but may be can be make with arduino motor controler, and some kind of botoms for controler the frecuency and the speed,you have some kind of blog i like very much your machine and i whant explore some of your machine like model, i make one polargraph machine but need alots of controler via pc, but looks like your machine can be a standalone intreactive machine, thanks for shared your machine
best regards
Its so cool Nice Work
wonderful work.
Which pen did you use?
I guess it would be two multiplied waves (like sine or cosine) in a circular function. If you would take not a circular piece of paper, but a long paper with the maximum width of the lines and just pull it throughunder it the function would be alot simpler. I guess the hardest thing now is the overlap.
Incredible!
Fascinating !!! What if your pen ink runs out? Is it easy to get back to the place where it ran out so you can finish a complete design?
What is the exact motor you are using?
wonderful !
Deep !
i would love to see this adapted to incorporate a router and some sort of figured wood (Maple/walnut), and then stained to bring out the contours...
incredible and simple
WOW, amazing!!
When and where will the exhibition ?
i want this at home so badly....
That's genius!
this is amazing!!!!!!
I think this could be one interesting clock.
It is amazing
you should give a bit a colors background on the plain paper for art needs harmonic combinations of syntropy and entropy
AWESOME
If the pen runs out of ink does it scribble?
That is very cool.
Beautiful!
I love those gel pens (who doesn't) It'd be fun to figure out how many miles of lines are in those pens, say a .07! I'm sure that's easy math. How many of these can you get from one pen?!
Again, great stuff! Have a great weekend!!
Can you link the PD patch somewhere? I use this program all the time for music production.
it's a computer program driving the pen; all programs are essentially mathematical equations
Amazing!!
Fantastic.
Cool man !!
Yeah pure data!!
Really cool Machine. Sorry in which IDE was made the programming?
Seems to be PureData language and PD-extended under linux.
beautiful!
VERY NC MAN
Do you guys sell these drawings? I really want one.
Do you sell the drawings or prints?
Is this just a cool doo-dad, or does it have a practical value?
TD Nolting It has the practical value of making cool drawings
Amazing.
Pretty cool
The computer program just sets the motor velocities. The math really resides in the mechanical arrangement not in the program. You set the positions of the magnets and the lengths of the pen arms then variations of speed ratios creates a family of patterns within that mechanical configuration. It is not an x-y plotter in the normal sense.
If you're using the computer to control the motors, why not go one extra step and simulate the movement --- and the final curve --- with the same computer, and then print the result on a regular printer? It would save you paper, because you'd only print the nice patterns, as well as a lot of time, since the full simulation would take much less than a second.
Because it's a demonstration of the robotic control capabilities not a demonstration of cool patterns ; )
Just because it's mesmerizing to watch. The process rather than finished result. Can you imagine?
AMAZING
where can i get plans and program
this is awesome
where i can buy it?
i'm thinking of trying to make a machine a bit like this if anybody as any I tips I would be very grateful