NAME

App::GUI::Harmonograph - sculpting beautiful circular drawings

SYNOPSIS

  1. start the program (harmonograph)

  2. push help buttons (down left) to understand GUI and mechanics

  3. move knobs to interesting configuration

  4. push "Draw" (below right drawing board) to produce visible / full image

  5. push "Save" (below left) to store image in a PNG / JPEG / SVG file

  6. push "Write" (second row right) to safe settings into a INI file for tweaking them later

DESCRIPTION

An Harmonograph is an apparatus of several connected pendula, creating together spiraling pictures :

Mechanics

This is a cybernetic recreation of an Prof. Blackburns invention with several enhancements:

  • third pendulum can rotate

  • pendula can oscillate at none integer frequncies

  • changeable amplitude damping

  • changeable dot density and size

  • 3 types of color changes with changeable speed and polynomial dynamics

GUI

Pendulum

Line

Colors

Workflow

File Formats

File Series

AUTHOR

Herbert Breunung (lichtkind@cpan.org)

COPYRIGHT

Copyright(c) 2022 by Herbert Breunung

All rights reserved. This program is free software and can be used and distributed under the GPL 3 licence.