1/19/2026 at 9:57:03 PM
by tsanummy
1/23/2026 at 7:39:46 AM
Yeah using AI to do a first stage pass seems to work well. I did something similar with Nano Banana: https://github.com/c-jiph/bitmap-to-gcodeI didn't actually end up playing with it too much but the problem I found was it's a hard to get a one-size-fits-all prompt. The AI generated images are usually okay but some features aren't great for a plotter or just don't look visually pleasing. It's still better than having to manually mess with the initial image.
by c-jiph
1/23/2026 at 9:29:37 AM
Isn't the examples not very telling if you can't see the input too? Results look good, but I don't know what the input / what kind of preprocessing what done on it.by ansc
1/23/2026 at 8:51:25 AM
Very nice - I’ve struggled (and failed) with a similar approach previously.FLUX.2 can run on a Mac - any thoughts on making this work on Mac? Needing a 24GB NVidia card is limiting…
by mft_
1/23/2026 at 11:32:48 AM
> Requirements> NVIDIA GPU with 24GB VRAM (RTX 3090/4090)
That's a little bit to much for my trusty notebook...
by hwj
1/23/2026 at 8:36:31 AM
Cool project! I tackled the same problem a few weeks ago to plot some nice Christmas cards. I will have a look at your skeletonization approach, because I was struggling with that.In the end I just used potracer and was fine with having double lines for my cards: https://github.com/piebro/personal-plotting-util/blob/main/i...
by piebro
1/23/2026 at 12:12:12 PM
Nice one :)by max002
1/23/2026 at 7:15:31 AM
Neat!by joshu
1/24/2026 at 5:00:23 AM
lmao, `autotrace -centerline filename.png` would also achieve this, I wonder how many tokens were burned to achieve what a 1mb GPL program from 1999 could dovery depressing that our incentive structures are so malformed that finding the 27 year old solution is more difficult than burning a few kW getting an LLM to regurgitate a facsimile
by thot_experiment