Beautiful and complex Spirography style Guilloché Pattern Generator

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Could be possible to make these Guilloché Patterns inside FF ???

Ask ThreeDee, as his Sine-O-Graph script can probably adapted to do this.
Basically what you have here is a lot of SIN\COS mathamabob for the points, and then line sections to connect the points.

Thanks for the links CorvusCroax, this looks beautiful and interesting I will try them.

I have tried with 4 different software to convert the Guilloché Patterns from the Subblue project But regretably it seems that is NOT possible because this is very low resolution and the lines are too thin and to joined together to make a real good vectorization, and you a bad result that is not in any way similar to the original.

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uberzev wrote: You might find some Illustrator complex pattern tools here...

Cool and wonderful link. Thanks very much.

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VERY GOOD NEWS - I HAVE FOUND A WAY TO ENLARGE THE Guilloché Pattern Generator !!
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I have been able to make a 2800 x 1800 image with perfect quality

1 - Go to the Guilloché Pattern Generator and make the design you want and make all the setting as you would like

HOW TO SAVE THE RESULT IN HIGH RESOLUTION?

2 - Well, BEFORE hitting the S key to save you need to use the CTRL + keys together to ZOOM into the screen and so you wil make it much larger, go until the maximum you can

3 - Use the SCALE Setting to fill the new black empty space with the shape you have designed.

4 - NOW you can hit the "S" key and you will get a high resolution version of your created design.

As said above in my case and my test I have been able to get a 2800 x 1800 pixels image.

5 - If this resolution is still not enough, you can use a good resizing software to mkae it even bigger. I have used the OnOne Software Perfect Resize 7 (included in the Perfect Suite 6)and it works very well and converted it to 7800 x 5000

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Skybase wrote: lol Spaceray guess what: if you right click you have some printing options. If you're on a Mac, there are "save as pdf" options which allows you to... save as a vector format.

Would this be really possible ? This would be really awesome and wonderful.

I have seen this before BUT on my windows computer I ONLY have save as pdf option without any kind of "save as vector" option

Where do you find this "save as vector" ? inside the pdf settings?

Perhaps you have installed some software that gives the option to save as vector that I do not have or Mac have it and Windows don´t.

Here is my Adobe Print as PDF settings

Sorry kinda got confusing there, the PDF file is a vector format (in this case.) I'm not too sure about Windows print-save formats but I just know on a Mac system you can save PDFs straight out of the print menu which is handy Just wish I knew a bit more about windows n stuff. But I'm just saying I'm sure if it lets you print, you have the ability to save the vector files properly.

Yeah that's why I wrote "in this case." It's fully vector.

SpaceRay, I tried both PDFCreator (free open source software), and the trial version of Foxit PDF printer, both save the guilloches from subblue in vector format.
I opeed the PDF files in Illustrator and it was live paths.

Install either one of the PDF printers or any other for that matter. Right click the guilloche (Inside the webapp), select Print... and then select the PDF printer.

Note that it's not going to work for everything.
The webapp is made in flash, which is vector based itself. So "printing" it to PDF just saves the vectors.
If you try to print to PDF a bitmap, or a java based webapp, you will get a raster in the PDF, and not live paths.

Is there any way to make this work with a CAD program?

Thanks.

Dave

SVCPRES thanks for remembering me about this thread as I had forgot that I still have to try this and make it convert to vector.

Try this one it generates SVG formats plus png
if you have adobe illustrator u can save the svg as high resolution as u need
http://www.guillocher.com

Artisticus. Do you know if there is any downloadable version of Guillocher?