It’s the holiday season, and what better way to celebrate than to carve out some generative snowflakes on your laser cutter? [Bleeptrack] has developed a web-based tool that creates generative snowflake ornaments which can be exported to SVG files ready-made for laser or vinyl cutting.
True to their namesake, each generated snowflake ornament is (very likely to be) unique, with multiple layers created that can be stacked on top of each other. [Bleeptrack] has showcased a few realizations, using semitransparent paper sandwiched between two top layer cutouts, made out of wood or cardboard.
The snowflakes are a great balance of minimal design while still being beautiful and rich in detail. They can be easily produced on any laser cutter or vinyl cutter that you might have handy. Source code is available on GitHub for those wanting to dive into the details of the web tool. Cutting one of your own would make a perfect addition to a Neodriver ornament or a tiny DOOM playing ornament. Video after the break!
Ohey, I did not anticipate to be featured on hackaday! Thanks a lot for that! I also just published a little video about the generator and cutting process if you want to take a look: https://youtu.be/-WHORPKPZP4
Would love to see what y’all make out of it!
What does “generative” mean here? If these are all unique then they are not reproducing
maybe they meant iterative.
“Procedural” might be a better term. “Random” would also work.
“generative” as in generative art. It describes the same methods as in procedural generation though. In this case it’s a parameterized model where I choose random values to get a new snowflake.