Show HN: I made a tiny book using a pen-plotter and AI (opens in new tab)

Love to build. Build to love.

Reminded me of Wordle and a few more projects like https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/

It's always wonderful to see projects we build for love. Haha. Cheers OP.

Have to say the text bothers and intrigues me… digital fonts that try to look like handwriting are already in the uncanny valley, and then you loop it back into physical media with a pen plotter. It could almost be an art project in its own right, exploring layers of going back and forth between physical and digital media to produce a seemingly mundane paper with some writing on it.

I’m a big fan of Dan Catt and his work with generative art and pen plotting.

About the cleaning up phase: the author cleaned up the bitmaps before the vectorizing stage, and that included separating lines.

In my experience it's a little bit easier to clean the vectorized results by removing unwanted points, because those are easier to see than line connections that may or may not pose a problem later. (But to each their own.)

I've been wanting to do something with a plotter, thanks for the tip about center line tracing