DrawingBotV3 takes an image as a starting point and offers a range of styles for translating it into drawn marks. Its support for layered output and vector files makes it a useful example of a tool focused on the journey from an existing picture to a plotted drawing.
That is a different starting point from building a procedural landscape in CDW, and the distinction is useful. One can begin with a photograph, a mathematical rule, or a piece of geographic data; in each case the final challenge is to make marks that work with a real pen on real paper.
Featured image: screenshot of the DrawingBotV3 website. © Ollie Lansdell.
