Yes, indeed. I thought it might be helpful to have some kind of drawing robot. I looked at a variety of options, and the cheapest/best option for me seemed to be the cute ‘Artie 2000’
It’s quite neat, and you can script it with python.
So I needed some way to encode a geometric drawing as a seqence of paths. I got some way towards working out how to decompose a drawing into a set of paths:
Although I got a bit lost in the details of how to ‘sew’ the path with minimal non-drawing (pen up) movement…