Hey Jack, you are giving your age away there...
That is pretty impressive piece, I like the added color. I hope to graduate to colors later.
Just to let everyone know where I am in the process...
I looked at the example Ari did that Bill P. and you pointed me to, his method is interesting and may help me when punching deep holes that a background would show through. I appreciate the tip.
I downloaded and did a test with the HalfToner application. My take at the present is that it generates too much information. If I can figure a way to remove excess stuff so it only generates code for what I want to punch it could be very useful.
I also tried the application Bill Young has developed VBit Artist, it also generates a lot of code and doesn't appear to be what is needed. If the application could be modified to just put circles on the subject and not on the entire picture then it would work very well. An application that would only use the black detail in a file is what I believe would work best. A better version would allow selection of several different colors, one at a time like a plotter does. The individual colors could then be assigned different spacings for more or less detail (punches) as needed. That is what I am doing now manually, by using Corel and ArtCam. Note: More detail = smaller circles without overlap for cleaner detail in the final piece.
I am going to try 2 more punch files today one with more facial and hair detail, and another with a closeup of just the head punched out. I am also going to punch out one file on paper to see how that works, Steve G. put me on that thought with his post. I will post pictures later.
Thanks for the help...
SR