Some years back Will Adams helped me begin my CNC’d chip carving quest. Here’s the results of a recent experiment coaxing the Gemini AI into creating a web based app, which took the better part of a day with all of it’s mistakes and tangents. This will create a classic twirl rosette pattern as an SVG file with 6 or more petals, and in either direction. The result will have a tiny spacing between elements to help keep the sharp edge from chipping out, configured as Gap in the options. Around 0.1mm works well for me and was what the article I discovered this in suggested. It’s hosted on github, download and run the html file. You can run it directly with this link. I’ve tried it in Chrome on Windows and ChromeOS, and Edge on W11.
The result is an svg file that’s suitable for v-carving. The calculated petal width is the width of the largest v-carve path, which may limit your bit width choices to wider bits, if somebody happens to try this with V8 let me know how that works out. The picture is an example output of a 50mm 24 segment version. All arcs are the same radius as the enclosing circle, which also limits the width of the border segments. Of course this isn’t real chip carving, no hand carving involved, it just kinda looks like it. Gemini insists it’s capable of creating an app that will take a scanned design, clean it up with manual assistance, and add an intra-element gap. Based on the experiences with this practice attempt I’m skeptical but intend to give it a try at some point.
