Thread: stupid questions from an arty type.

Maths and art have had a long association.
A bit too far out there for me but back on topic you can get any line drawing cut on many different materials. Laser, engraved or diamond drag would be the likley methods for doing this. The lines need to be vectors and not just bitmapped images. A machine needs a start point, a direction and length of travel and a stop point to be able to work - ie it cannot follow a series of pixels that you see on screen. As he has used maths to generate the image it is likely that he already has a vector image. If he can save or convert his data to a dxf format then it will be perfect
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Originally Posted by rodm

Maths and art have had a long association.
A bit too far out there for me but back on topic you can get any line drawing cut on many different materials. Laser, engraved or diamond drag would be the likley methods for doing this. The lines need to be vectors and not just bitmapped images. A machine needs a start point, a direction and length of travel and a stop point to be able to work - ie it cannot follow a series of pixels that you see on screen. As he has used maths to generate the image it is likely that he already has a vector image. If he can save or convert his data to a dxf format then it will be perfect
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Yes! That is what the program did. A start point and an end point etc. That's why I though that it would lend itself to some sort of engraving thing. So what's the biggest sheet of whatever that could be engraved? He was toying with getting some sort of art grant to get them reproduced. And there are also grants for art and industry partnerships.

2400 by 1200 can be handled by most in the industry and much larger is also avaialble. No doubt cost will increase with size and there will be a limitation on material size unless it can be a mosiac. Best to talk to the industry so see what they are capable of.
Stone (slate), glass, stainless or combinations building it into a 3D form would be most interesting. Sorry the male and grand scale affecting me a well.