wysiwyc

what you see is what you cut.

Project:

A Laser Cutting Visualization Prototype, and many experiments.

People:

• Sarah Kushner - PhD Student at DGP, University of Toronto
• Arjun Chhabra - Undergraduate Research Assistant at DGP, University of Toronto
• Alec Jacobson - Assistant Professor at DGP, University of Toronto

Directories:

• /flattening/
  A C++ project which takes in an SVG file and rids the design of invisible, redundant vectors. Uses CGAL, tinyxml and NanoSVG.
• /OverlapView/
  A Python program that utilizes Cairo to render an alpha composited view of overlaps in curves from an SVG file. Used to predict the number of times a laser passes through each point.
  
• /exploder_strokes_fills/
  A Python program that explodes a given SVG into separate strokes and fills and writes out a new SVG.
  

Laser cutters:

:warning: Trotec Speedy 400 flex
:warning: Universal Laser Systems Versalaser

To do

• batch convert to SVG 1.0 with "CSS Properties: Style Attributes"