Words to Path

• Run npm start and then curl -d "font=EMSOsmotron&text=Hello&hex=37" -X POST http://localhost:8000 to get a list of points that say Hello
• These points can be fed into the mirror-array project as they are printed here (array of 2 element arrays)
• Go to http://localhost:8000 for interfacing

Process

Fonts

• The first step is getting a single line svg font - http://cutlings.wasbo.net/single-line-fonts-options/
• Font file formats require closed paths to make outlines so even if they say they're single line, they actually double back very thinly
• I downloaded the Geometric svg font from above

Getting the shape manually

• Used CNC Text Tool (source) with my geometric svg font uploaded and the text size to 75 to download sentences as svgs
• Turned that svg into points with PathtoPoints with every 10th point
• Copy All Paths and parse into python array of doubles with VS Code
  • Paste into https://arraythis.com/
  • Replace ", with ] and remaining " with [ and surround with extra []

Getting shape automatically

• Incorporate the important parts of CNC Text Tool and PathToPoints into a single project.
• node backend that takes a sentence and translates it - keep IP secret from other Etsy Sellers
• Node output should be a file containing the point array. When an order comes through, the python program can create the mirror stl
  • manually run script with array and check the outputs are correct

Test scripts

EMSOsmotron is a good font for this

curl -d "font=EMSOsmotron&text=Hello&hex=91" -X POST http://localhost:8000

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ\nabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz\n0123456789

Used this one

curl -d "font=EMSReadability&text=GRAHAM&hex=127" -X POST http://localhost:8000