Not sure what to call it, LINE ART.

Feb 13, 2023 6:25 AM

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Not sure what to call it, LINE ART.

art

geometric

machine

satisfying

lineart

2 years ago | Likes 72 Dislikes 1

I lost the plot

2 years ago | Likes 127 Dislikes 1

I lost the game

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The plot thickens.

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Well, you have to draw the line somewhere.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Printing with extra steps

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Just the tip.

2 years ago | Likes 398 Dislikes 1

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I second this, can we get a third?

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Waves by Max Cooper

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

and only for a minute.

2 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Just to see how it feels

2 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

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What's the name of the song?

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

SPIROGRAPH

2 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

Printer

2 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Plotter

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Soldier Spy

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

If AI art ain’t art, then neither is this.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I dunno. I kinda liked the green by itself. Maybe I'm just prejudiced to upvotes.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I'd call it Andy

2 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Better than string and nails

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I was kind of surprised when I found out professionals like to use markers. I always thought of them as toys.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

What brand are those pens? They have a lovely consistency

2 years ago | Likes 239 Dislikes 0

Pen-y McPenface

2 years ago | Likes 44 Dislikes 4

I love the pen

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 3

Bic

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Rolamech 1000

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Faber-Castell PITT artist pens with a B tip.

2 years ago | Likes 259 Dislikes 0

Ouh, I live near their factory in Germany. Going shopping and never using them as I wish to. :)

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Thanks!

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

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That video has sound btw.

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If you are ever unsure what to name a work of art, there's always the fallback, "The Duality of Man"

2 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

The one that I always use is "Man's inhumanity to Man"

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Philosophical argument, where is the line drawn (pun intended) where art stops being done by the artist and is just computer or machine

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Generated. With the increase in AI the line seems even murkier than it ever was before. Is it still art? Is the person an artist?

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I think, for me, where someone stops being an artist is well before where the creation stops being art. If that makes sense. Others can /1

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

appreciate something as art even if nothing went into it from that perspective. I don't know where the line is for an artist, though. /2

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I’m genuinely not sure anymore. Computer aided drawing still counts to me. Using tools in photoshop or illustrator etc. but this looks

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Like a a cnc machine had an algorithm plugged in and then did the work. Is inputting coordinates and math art? That’s where I don’t know.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ahhh... those were the days. 1980s, when our school computer had no screen, but a pen plotter. And card reader, thermo printer and cassette.

2 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Your back hurts too?

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Much less so since I joined a back training class at the local gym.

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

A man needs a SOURCE, @OP! I'd love to build that plotter myself and replicate the drawing

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

For anyone interested: At least I found the model of the plotter. It's an AxiDraw A1

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

C.A.D computer aided design

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

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so good

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

G01 X23.1Y34.5

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Meanwhile my felt pens dried after 2 minutes of use

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

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a printer with extra steps :) but nice rendering ! and nice idea anyway

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

seems quite dependent on good flow of ink

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

yeah, more than the piece, I'm most impressed with the pens and plotter themselves. Perfect ink flow and great arm rigidity.

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

3D printer?

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Similar idea but think older tech. They're called pen plotters.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It’s a joke, because it’s printing a 3D shape, just in two dimensions

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nice

5 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Plotterporn

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Anyone know where this is from? I'd actually be interested in buying one of these

2 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

The art or the machine?

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Search "DIY pen plotter" on eBay etc. for cheap kits.

2 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

AxiDraw by Evil Mad Scientist. They're great.

2 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

I thought the same thing too as I own one but this is much larger

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yeah they make an "A1" version which is huge!

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

TIL

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

A plotter might help you - or at least that's what they were called back then

2 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

I used to use the pen plotter at my high school to write & sign notes about why I was absent from class. Plotters were awesome.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

What are they used for? I thought it was like a drafting board or some architectural tool

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It was for AutoCAD class.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

can also easily make one from a cheap CNC

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

You can easily make one from a not cheap CNC.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

also true!

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

ehr 3dprinter, which are basically CNCs anyways

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Good luck finding a consumer 3d printer that size.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

depends, can i buy new belts and 8020 extrusions? if you can its easy :)

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

C-n-C line art. Cool, but why?

2 years ago | Likes 54 Dislikes 18

why not?

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

CNC line art. Cool, that's why!

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Plotter art. That's all we did with our tiny Commodore 1520 plotters back in the day.

2 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Why does anyone do anything? Because they want to and because they can.

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I see it as a good use of this tool. You could try doing it by hand but since they have the tech, might as well use it.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

remember the "S" we drew on tables at school ? that's them now.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Who is forcing the line?

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Because cool

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huh? how else would you achieve the precision, for example? its so easy to come up with reasons... WHY does it HAVE to have a reason?? wtf?

2 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 5

People like to think things have a deeper reason for being, it's just something they do.

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I was thinking printing would kinda be the same. We've got a real nice giant one for blueprints that would look the same. Ink may be pricier

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Rulers?

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Print it?

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

you still print? i mean why print if u can have a 3d modell of it?

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Printers suck

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

"Why" is the only question not applicable to art. That's what makes it art. It exists...

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Art.

2 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 1

Why even ask that question? I hate "but why's".

2 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 1

Nonetheless, for what reason?

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 5

Because they want to. An explanation for art is never owed.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Because we can

2 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

For the good of all of us. Except the ones who are dead.

2 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I heard there would be cake.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Why not?

2 years ago | Likes 83 Dislikes 0

this is the question with art, try whatever the fuck you want

2 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

This is not art. We know what art is - it's paintings of horses!

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

My son the artist when I questioned his subject matter, "not everyone wants to paint a pic of a barn"

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Compensation for unsteady hand and/or lack of patience.

2 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 1

Or they, you know, want to.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Must be the unsteady hand, because there would be plenty of patience involved it programming that into the CNC.

2 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 1

I think the programming probably takes less time than the planning and repetition of all those lines.

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Most likely. And if you want multiples, you only have to program it once. Still a time-consuming program to make, though.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You're basically programming a set of points to draw to and when to lower and lift the pen. I think you'd write it to draw the horizontal

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Unnecessary .Unless of course your intent is the process of hand drawing thousands of lines. Masturbatory and fetishistic IMO

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Not sure why you're obliterated, I get your point. However not many people can afford a "CNC" this large.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Obliterated?

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And if it's cheaper than I expect it to be--this is just lo-fi large-format ink printer with more steps to have g-code generated

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(basically, one could argue that they could have had the same effect done faster in photoshop and then printed at a printshop).

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