Polar plotter
 | It is requested that the deleted page history of User:Kieranbrowne/Polargraph be undeleted and merged into the history of this page. This action must be performed by an administrator or importer (compare pages).
Consider placing Administrators: Before merging the page histories, read the instructions at Wikipedia:How to fix cut-and-paste moves carefully. An incorrect history merge is very difficult to undo. Also check Wikipedia:Requests for history merge for possible explanation of complex cases. |
A polar plotter also known as polargraph or Kritzler is a plotter which uses the polar coordinate system to produce vector drawings using a pen suspended from strings connected to two pulleys at the top of the plotting surface. This gives it two degrees of freedom and allows it to scale to fairly large drawings simply by moving the motors further apart and using longer strings. The system has been used by a number of artists and makers, see below:
References
- ^ Holmes, Kevin. "Robots That Create Art: Harvey Moon's Drawing Machines". Vice. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
- ^ Weber, Alex. "Der Kritzler". Tinkerlog. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
- ^ Nobel, Sandy. "What's a polargraph". Polargraph. Retrieved 29 June 2015.