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24 alternatives to Pen plotter map art
Create your own unique pen plotter map art
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Pen plotter map art launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Generative art coded in p5.js and pen plotted using an AxiDraw V3/A3.
2023 · adamfuhrer.com · its alternatives →
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Create plotter-like line drawings from your images.
2021 · javier.xyz · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I want to share a personal project: I made a tiny pen-plotted book for my wife. I did everything myself—drawings (with some help from Midjourney), plotting, cutting, and binding. I even used a 3D printer to make a helper tool. It's absolutely over-engineered, but I enjoyed it a lot. Multi-disciplinary projects, especially those with a physical output, are a lot of fun for me. The post covers the process in detail, but if you're interested in anything specific, let me know. Cheers!
2025 · muffinman.io · its alternatives →
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I'm enthralled with using pen plotters to make generative art. Last August at SIGGRAPH, I built an interactive experience for others to see how code can be used to make visual art. The linked blog post is my trials and tribulations of linking a MIDI controller to one of these algorithms and sending its output to a plotter, so that people may witness the end-to-end experience.
2024 · lostpixels.io · its alternatives →
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AxiDraw▲8A simple, modern, precise, and versatile pen plotter
2016 · shop.evilmadscientist.com · its alternatives →
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Plotter▲10Takes in any art style & re-create it on a fresh new canvas
2017 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · brachiograph.art · its alternatives →
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Design beautiful map interfaces with Google Maps & Mapbox
2017 · codeload.github.com · its alternatives →
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Map Chart▲93Make a custom map with your own colors and descriptions.
2016 · mapchart.net · its alternatives →
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Sketch Map▲63Turn your Sketch prototypes into user flow diagrams
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Create custom star maps, with the stars, planets, Sun and Moon as seen from the locations, dates and times of your choice, and your own design. Download them as transparent PNG to add to your own products, or create unique art with them.
2019 · thestarmaps.com · its alternatives →
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I’ve been working on a project to bridge the gap between AI generation and my AxiDraw, and I think I finally have a workflow that avoids the usual headaches. If you’ve tried plotting AI-generated images, you probably know the struggle: generic tracing tools (like Potrace) trace the outline of a line, resulting in double-strokes that ruin the look and take twice as long to plot. What I tried previously: - Potrace / Inkscape Trace: Great for filled shapes, but results in "hollow" lines for line art. - Canny Edge Detection: Often too messy; it picks up noise and creates jittery paths. -…
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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PINTR▲97Tool that turns your images into plotter-like line drawings
2021 · javier.xyz · its alternatives →
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This is a D&D map making tool I've been working on for a while now, but I just added some new features to the beta that I think HN users might find neat. When building a world map, you can use "Dynamic Brushes" to draw organic looking terrain. This is achieved entirely with svg filters and javascript canvas, no fancy libraries or anything. This came with a pretty large rewrite of some of the underlying code, so I'm sure there's a number of bugs I haven't come across, but I'd love to hear your opinions on it!
2023 · dungeonmapdoodler.com · its alternatives →
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Globe 3D▲151Convert your design into an interactive 3D globe
2021 · globe-3d.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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A few years ago I made a pen plotter attachment for Prusa MK4 (https://www.printables.com/model/827264-pen-plotter-attachme...) and at the time I didn't have a good way to turn artwork into G-code for it, and I put the project on ice for a while. I recently wanted to dabble in line art again and made a small browser app to make it easier. As agentic AI tools of 2026 are quite addictive, it rather quickly grew into something quite a bit more - an integrated browser CAD/CAM for pen plotters that covers everything from importing existing artwork, creating artwork from…
Jul 2026 · kurvengefahr.org · its alternatives →
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