{"id":35698,"date":"2012-03-18T20:17:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T03:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/?p=35698"},"modified":"2012-03-29T11:09:01","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T18:09:01","slug":"cnc-routing-halftone-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/ponoko\/cnc-routing-halftone-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Software apps let you create halftone images with CNC routing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Software for cutting images into materials with CNC&#8230;<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cnchalftone.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35699\" title=\"cnchalftone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cnchalftone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cnchalftone.jpg 799w, https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cnchalftone-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cnchalftone-768x558.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/><\/a> Software developer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jasondorie.com\/page_cnc.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jason Dorie<\/a> has created a couple of Windows applications &#8211; Halftoner and Reactor that allow people to create halftones images for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/cnc-routing\" target=\"_blank\">CNC routing<\/a> from ordinary image files. They both require the Microsoft .NET framework, V3.5<!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/halftoner.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-35707\" title=\"Halftoner example\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/halftoner-1024x610.jpg\" alt=\"Halftoner example\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/halftoner-1024x610.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/halftoner-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/halftoner-768x458.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/halftoner.jpg 1233w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Halftoner v1.4<\/h4>\n<p>Drag and drop an image onto the app and it automatically generates a halftone image for CNC routing with options to customize the size, shape and spacing of the halftone dots. It can also write to GCode with options available to match spindle and feed rates for your CNC router. It can also output to .DXF files.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/beforeafterreactor.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35704\" title=\"Before &amp; After Reactor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/beforeafterreactor.jpg\" alt=\"Before &amp; After Reactor\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/beforeafterreactor.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/beforeafterreactor-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Reactor v1.2<\/h4>\n<p>Reactor is much\u00a0simpler\u00a0and based on reaction-diffusion patterns to generate black and white images. Unlike Halftoner, it doesn&#8217;t create a vector based graphic, nor can it generate GCode by itself. However you might find it useful with other tool pathing software or for<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/laser-cutting\" target=\"_blank\"> laser cutting\/engraving <\/a>halftone images.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xoJDTPRqI6o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Although Dorie provides the software for free, if you find it useful he welcomes <a href=\"http:\/\/jasondorie.com\/page_cnc.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">donations via PayPal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>David is an industrial designer from New Zealand. He contributes a weekly article on personal fabrication for Ponoko. You can follow him on Twitter\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/@dizymac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@dizymac<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Software for cutting images into materials with CNC&#8230;<\/strong>  Software developer\u00a0Jason Dorie has created a couple of Windows applications &#8211; Halftoner and Reactor that allow people to create halftones images for CNC routing from ordinary image files. 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