Comments on: Hello World Part 1: Drawing Live on an HP Pen Plotter via Processing

By: Mark Aune

Mark Aune — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:14:53 +0000

Hi,
I understand your fascination as I have two of these old plotters and still plot my Land Survey drawings with them. If you are interested, I have a 10 page or so booklet from HP that details the Plotter Language, get ahold of me and I probably can scan it in and email it to you. Mark Aune

By: Create Digital Motion » Pen Zen: Plotter Video Exported as FLV

Create Digital Motion » Pen Zen: Plotter Video Exported as FLV — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:47:53 +0000

[...] I’ve been doing some more work on my Processing-Plotter setup. The current plan is to amass a collection of Processing sketches which perform various plotter functions - initialization, scaling, shade modes, layers, shapes, communication etc. - and then put them together as a Processing library. [...]

By: Create Digital Motion » Data Mining for Fun and Projection

Create Digital Motion » Data Mining for Fun and Projection — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:28:11 +0000

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