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Guilloche Pattern Generator
I stumbled on some pretty pictures of watches and jewelry that had fancy guilloche patterns made with rather complicated machinery. So I wrote a few lines of code to try it on the CNC. For a first experiment not too bad. I think it could be useful for decorative patterns on door panels or wainscoting (or Scott's buttons). For my experiments I used cheap cedar fence board that does not carve that well so the result is not that clean but good enough to give an idea.
I guess it could be done with regular CAD/CAM software but such dedicated code allows to create a pattern and related toolpaths in a minute without drafting, import to CAM and fluting/carving toolpath specification.
Not sure what to do with that yet but I find it fascinating.
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