<p>This program wraps height map images around cylinders. That means you can take any image and make a cylindrical spiral vase that veries it's diameter as a function of the image brightness. </p><p>The program creates an OpenSCAD program which you can run in the download from <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.openscad.org">www.openscad.org</a>. Then you can make an STL file and generate gcode via Slicer on the spiral vase setting. That's a bit of a tool chain, just realize that it gives you lots of power to create what you want. </p><p>Sometimes this makes a great shape and sometimes it makes a poor shape - it all depends on the image. Not every image is a height map, and most are not. You should experiment with different images until you get a feel for how the program works. </p><p>This program is written in the Processing language, so to use it you must go to <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.processing.org">www.processing.org</a> and download the free program. Please make a donation if you can. <br></p><p>You must slightly modify the program each time you run it in order to put the filename in the beginning. I want to improve the code so it has a popup window to find the file but I have not gotten around to it yet. I will do so soon. Also feel free to modify the code in other ways to get varied effects. </p><p>Also please note that this YouMagine entry is in WIKI mode so you can modify it with your improvements to the code! Long live OpenSource! :)</p><p>Les</p>
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