Can thread thickness be visualized?

[LEBMD]

i'm using the tool and absolutely loving it, but I'm wondering if there's a way to edit line thickness, or if you have a suggestion on choosing thread thickness based on the diameter of the frame

[christiansiegel]

Great to hear! I've successfully used "regular" black sewing machine thread on a circle with 0.8m diameter and ~4500 lines.

What you could theoretically do to simulate a thicker thread:

• Play with the opacity slider to make it appear darker on screen
• Decrease 700 on this line (might mess with the UI of the tool though): https://github.com/christiansiegel/knitter/blob/421620427d7e001365ee269a1a107fd99c5a22a2/knitter.pde#L347
• What I always did: If it looks good on your screen, just increase the line number a bit more to have some wiggle room. You can always stop after X lines when I looks good/dark enough in the physical form without really affecting the picture details.

Let me know if that helped 😉

[LEBMD]

didn't think you'll answer, and definitely not this fast! thank you

I have thicker threads than the regular sewing ones, and using a 0.4m frame was using points one and three in your response i know no JAVA at all, but i was messing a bit with the drawString function. increasing "strokeWeight" caused the lines to be blurry so i changed the noFill() to fill(30) and that made the lines a bit more crisp

void drawStrings() {
  stroke(0, opacitySlider.value);
  strokeWeight(1.3);
  fill(30);

but I was wondering if there is a more consistent way to change the thickness

Decreasing the size from 700 to 500, and increasing strokeWeight from 1 to 1.2, did exactly what I want the results are coming out exactly as the actual portraits I previously tried!

[christiansiegel]

Oh, true. Didn't think about the strokeWeight 😄

Thanks for your input. I'll leave this issue open for when I'll find the time to maybe make that setting a bit more accessible.