Plotter Geometry
Circle Packing pen plotter drawing with the default settings

Packing

Circle Packing

Randomly packed circles filled with rings, spirals, eccentric bubbles or hatching.

Pens

Circles are colored by size, fill style or a repeatable scatter. Starts with 4 pens and works with anywhere from 1 to 8.

Settings

Largest radius (mm), Smallest radius (mm), Gap (mm), Attempts, Style, Fill spacing (mm), Eccentricity, Shift direction°, Direction spread°, Outline hatched circles, Pen per.

The preview uses the default settings on A4. Press R in the app for random variations. The SVG export is in millimetres with one Inkscape layer per pen, so it works with the AxiDraw extension, vpype and saxi.

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