Idea: Use openvoronoi as alternative toolpath in F-Engrave

[Blokkendoos]

Hi Anders, In the works of refactoring F-Engrave I got the idea to add openvoronoi as an alternative toolpath strategy. After having consulted Scorch, the author, I renamed F-Engrave to OOF-Engrave.

Both openvoronoi as f-engrave are under GPLv3 so I expect using the first in the latter is no problem. My question is whether this assumption is true.

[aewallin]

Yes you are correct there should be no issues at all if both programs/libraries are GPL licensed. For openvoronoi it should be possible to build the library and just link against it from the project that is using the library. I don't remember but there might be an openvoronoi-dev package already for this (it installs the header-files also).

do you have a link to pictures or videos of the toolpaths that OOF-Engrave produces?

[Blokkendoos]

Thanks for your swift response. OOF-Engrave is a Python application. My idea is to use OV as shown in the python examples and, for V-carving, the medial axis examples in particular. This is my OOF-Engrave repo and here you find the original F-Engrave and the algorithm used. An example of the OOF-Engrave 2D toolpath, i.e.Scorch's algorithm: https://youtu.be/Xz_Q1KmSoDI

[Blokkendoos]

The proof-of-concept works.

[Blokkendoos]

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