• c-jiph 7 hours ago

    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-gcode

    I 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.

    • hwj 3 hours ago

      > Requirements

      > NVIDIA GPU with 24GB VRAM (RTX 3090/4090)

      That's a little bit to much for my trusty notebook...

      • ansc 5 hours ago

        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.

        • mft_ 5 hours ago

          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…

          • piebro 6 hours ago

            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...

            • max002 2 hours ago

              Nice one :)

            • joshu 7 hours ago

              Neat!