Using Verve as a X Y tracing table ?

So the technique behind is to have a line picture about 300px x 300px and the script converts it in to line movement?
It seems there is no "lift up" in there, to get from one line to another, isn't it?

Very interesting!
Can you tell some more details??

Sure Knacki,
Yes it is a one-line drawing, the algorithm is from Diana Lange:
http://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/84552
Apparently she randomly searches for targets points amongst the darkest values of the image and then connect each of them with its nearest neighbour (chosen randomly amongst 7 possibilities). My modifications are superficial : replacing drawing on the native Processing display window by mouse pointer movements (including those nice "curly" splines that i had to reprogram). Here's the modified code (quick & dirty):
http://www.gbotet.fr/vrv/p/einlinienzei ... 2sansDRAW/
Watch out for the mouse because I had to make it press and release the left button on each elementary line segment, otherwise i had spurious lines for some reason that i did not investigate (therefore the mouse can trigger anything on your desktop if you don't put Verve full screen underneath !).
Regards,
GBoGBo

[Taron]

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Now the robot has found the colors buttons:
viewtopic.php?p=11442#p11442

Thanks GboGbo. That is very useful for me.

Hahah
and thanks for the warning. Reminds me of one guy having same early days wireless mouse for two computers.
One in the cellar and one in the living room.
After working the whole day through in the living room he came down into the cellar and this computer was also switched on.......

[Taron]

Kudos on the range of his wireless!

lol excellent
@Knacki : you're welcome. Let us know if you are doing something pretty with it !

Hello all,
a try with a generative calligraphy program, I tweaked it a bit and tuned Verve for a rather organic feel to depart from the original "very thin lines" look, but still it ain't Borhany :

(the "r" is rather cute though).
Here's a video recording showing the automatic painting of the letter "a" :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMkK5SMX2qg
The original code is called Dibuixant (= "drawing" in català), a Processing program from Ricard Marxer, using his remarkable Geomerative library:
http://www.caligraft.com/exhibition/dibuixant
Note that you can change fonts (ttf format).
rgds,
GBoGBo

This looks fantastic!
What a brilliant use of this function.
Very well humanized.

Cool

Thanks Knacki, it's fun to watch moving but I was unsure about the final outcome... BTW the modified program is here: http://www.gbotet.fr/vrv/p/dibuixant_mouse2/
Note : for this quick attempt I had to make each letter separately because when in a word, the algo links the letters together: these connecting lines are nicely and gradually concealed in the original program (i.e. alpha function of speed), but I could not reproduce this effect in Verve with the mouse robot (i could not decrease opacity when the speed raises, actually it is quite the contrary in the mouse mode with opacity button on - that can be nice also but not useful here).
I really hope that Taron will keep the mouse mode in Verve 1.0, and if possible with more options (e.g. legacy or inverted effect of speed, on opacity and size).