Some More Drawing Machine Pictures

The images below have all been generated using excel and a variation in the geometry for the drawing machine by Craig Newswanger on http://www.resonancestudio.com/. Just added another rotating wheel where the pen is 🙂

Below is a quick scetch-up of the solution I have used to solve illustration.

drawing-machine-1

And the variation I have used to generate the above 🙂

drawing-machine-2

 

2 thoughts on “Some More Drawing Machine Pictures”

  1. HI, just found your homepage, fascinating! How did you create them in excel? Would you mind share a bit more details please? Thank you in advance!

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    1. Hi Sven, thanks for commenting. I have dropped a few notes on how to do these in the earlier posts:

      Creating a transformed spirograph type image in Microsoft Excel by Devan Matthews

      Excel-ing Math into MathArt


      , but I essentially just plot an XY line chart in excel with the knowledge that each line is a layer of an image. To accentuate each colour line (generally 0px setting), these get backed with a black line (0.25px or similar) depending on the type of image. I get the scaling right in excel and placement on the XY co-ordinates then copy this into Visio as an enhanced metafile (vector based) and save as a JPG in high res.

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