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Redraw the picture as pen-plotter marks: hatching, flow lines, contours and circuit paths.

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DISTORT
Availability
Free — no signup
Controls with options
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Marks made by a machine

The effect follows a toolpath, the route a plotter pen would take. Line density follows the tone, so dark areas take more marks than light ones, and the direction of the marks can follow the gradients in the image.

Seven ways to draw

Hatch fills tone with parallel strokes. Flow lets the marks follow the picture's direction. Contour traces the lines between tonal levels. Circuit draws right-angled paths like a printed board. Weave interlaces the strokes over and under each other. Stream runs the marks as continuous lines across the frame. Engrave cuts banknote line plates whose lines are bent by the depth map, not the brightness, so they climb over the form while the tone sets how thick each line is; Plate, Cross and Spiral choose the cut.

Every option, from the app

Generated from the registry the app publishes, so this list is whatever the current build actually ships — not a copy of it.

Mode
HatchFlowContourCircuitWeaveStreamEngrave
Plate
PlateCrossSpiral
  • EdgesOutline the picture for line art and blueprint looks, with three classic edge detectors.
  • WireframeDraw the image as a three-dimensional wire mesh, with the faces, the lines or both.
  • HalftoneA real halftone screen — an angled grid of cells whose ink coverage tracks tone, in dot, line, cross or square, with a separate four-colour process screen for CMYK.

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