Plotter People is a meetup for creative coders and people interested in collaborating with robots to make art. You’ll get to talk to folks who make generative art in a wide variety of programming languages and software environments, and you’ll get access to pen plotters and the people who make them.

When

Wednesday March 13, 2019
6:30 - 9:00pm

Where

GitHub SF
88 Colin P Kelly Jr St,
San Francisco, CA 94107 This venue is wheelchair-accessible.

Plotter People is free to attend thanks to GitHub’s generous donation of event space, but please RSVP so we know how many people to expect!

Want to hear about future events?

Plotter People #2

Speakers

Chandler Abraham: 3D Rendering For Plotter Art

A common hurdle in the plotter art journey is the jump from 2D to 3D rendering. Luckily for us, plotters are an incredibly tangible and fun way to experiment with the fundamentals of computer graphics. This talk is a gentle introduction to the first principles of camera geometry and 3D rendering in the context of vector line art.

Chandler Abraham, aka @cba, is an ex-Twitter engineer, spends his days working on satellite imagery at Planet Labs.

Geoffrey Bradway: From Monotone to Greyscale

Often when we plot we have access to one color at one pressure, and you might wonder how to broaden the range of your art to get a good light and dark tones. This talk is intended to be a guide to doing exactly that and we are going to talk about the theory behind halftones, techniques people use (stippling, hatching, dithering), algorithms you can use to plot, and some examples that showcase this.

Geoffrey Bradway, aka @marchingcubes, will also be showing what the finished piece looks like in the Plotter People gallery!

Schedule

6:30pm	Arrive at GitHub SF 88 Colin P Kelly Jr St, San Francisco, CA 94107. Make some new friends!
7:00pm	Chandler 3D Rendering For Plotter Art
7:30pm	Geoffrey From Monotone to Greyscale
8:00pm	Gallery + Food Grab a bite to eat, check out what folks are working on, and ask them questions! We’ll have plotters running—you might even get to plot your own SVGs!
9:00pm	Head home with a belly full of food and a head full of ideas!

Code of Conduct

All attendees, speakers, sponsors, volunteers and organizers are required to abide by the Plotter People Code of Conduct.