Making Generative Drawings with vintage Roland DXY Pen Plotter in openFrameworks
In this episode we get away from the screen and make some generative drawings using a vintage Roland pen plotter. Using openFrameworks and an add-on that talks the ancient HPGL Graphics Language we set up communication with a vintage Roland DXY 990 Pen Plotter. Then we get making simple generative paths and curves in C++ creative coding toolkit openFrameworks and explore what we get.
This video continues some of the explorations from the previous video on generative drawing with Catmull Rom Curves. • Live Generative Art Drawings with Catmull ...
Art and Code source code
https://github.com/danbz/art-and-code
Download openFrameworks
https://openframeworks.cc
Details of the Hackaday project accessing Roland Plotters
https://hackaday.io/project/12276-rol...
Get the ofxMH871 oF addon from Dan Moore
https://github.com/danzeeeman/ofxMH871