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#Excentro guilloche software#

Note 2 (27th August 2010): I have since bought Excentro and have used it on several projects, including this one for Wired, and I can confirm it is an excellent tool. Excentro Lite is a simplified version with the features set close to the original Excentro from the mid-'90s. I played a bit with Excentro and it certainly makes some things a hell of a lot easier - but I’ll hold off buying it for now until I’ve got an actual project I can use it for. Excentro Lite is a simple but powerful tool that can create guilloche designs like backgrounds, borders, or rosettes.

#Excentro guilloche software#

Note: Excentro 1 9 12 – Create Guilloche Illustration Designs For Beginners I know there are programs devoted to creating these patterns - Excentro being apparently one of the most popular, but I’d rather use the software tools I already own first. Now I just need to find the magic numbers to create just the right patterns I want. Still, after all this, I can still get the patterns made, and get them into an image editing program, which is quite something. Guilloches (bands of thin intertwining lines like ones you can see on banknotes) were traditionally used for security printing as a protection against counterfeit and forgery. Excentro is a simple tool that allows computer artist create Guilloche designs in comfortable environment of Macintosh computer.

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Illustration about Set of Guilloche decorative elements.

The process took ages and served just to prove to me that I could do it, but the results were too poor to go much further. So off I went, using the hypotrochoid equations on Mathworld to create rather rough and ready patterns - scripting at this point didn’t have a very usable set of functions for creating beziers, so I had to use crummy line segments. I do, however, have a computer, and at the point I first started playing with the designs (mid-2004) Illustrator and Photoshop had gained the ability to be scripted. The mathematical process attracted me immediately as I don’t have a geometric lathe and nor do I have anywhere to put one. Central to banknote designs are Guilloche patterns, which can be created mechanically with a geometric lathe, or more likely these days, mathematically. I can get lost for hours in all the details, seeing how the patterns fit together, how the lettering works, the tiny security ‘flaws’ - they’re amazing.