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Vectors are machine-readable images used in pen plotting, laser cutting, CNC routing, and other machine-driven machines. Not sure what a vector is? See Vector or Raster? for more info.

Desktop Programs

Inkscape is my personal favorite: free, easy to use (once you get the hang of vector creation) with built-in bitmap-to-vector conversion
Adobe Illustrator is the industry standard, but expensive. You have access as a student—see the photo teacher for details

Web Generators

Plotterfun takes an image and renders it as a plottable SVG. Lots of algorithms!
Slopes renders a stacked wave plot similar to that famous Joy Division album cover
Drawingbots.net plenty of tools
revdancatt's image generators
Triangle divider
UJI

Image Sources

Dimensions.com has a startling array of clean vectors to download
Template Maker and Boxes.py for all your box needs. Great for the laser or vinyl cutter
Flower generator and beetle generator by bleeptrack

Vector Artists/Inspiration

Jason Webb
Manolo Gamboa Naon
Checkout the #plottertwitter hashtag on Twitter

Generators That Require Coding

Snowflakes in Python, by Michael Fogleman

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-Vectors are machine-readable images used in pen plotting, laser cutting, CNC routing, and other machine-driven machines. See [[Vector or Raster?]] for more info.
+Vectors are machine-readable images used in pen plotting, laser cutting, CNC routing, and other machine-driven machines. Not sure what a vector is? See [[Vector or Raster?]] for more info.
-==Web Generators==
+===Desktop Programs===
+* [https://inkscape.org/ Inkscape] is my personal favorite: free, easy to use (once you get the hang of vector creation) with built-in [https://inkscape.org/doc/tutorials/tracing/tutorial-tracing.html bitmap-to-vector conversion]
+* [https://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator.html Adobe Illustrator] is the industry standard, but expensive. You have access as a student—see the photo teacher for details
+===Web Generators===
 * [https://mitxela.com/plotterfun/ Plotterfun] takes an image and renders it as a plottable SVG. Lots of algorithms!
 * [https://tinkersynth.com/slopes Slopes] renders a stacked wave plot similar to that famous Joy Division album cover
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 * [https://doersino.github.io/uji/ UJI]
-==Image Sources==
+===Image Sources===
 * [http://dimensions.com/ Dimensions.com] has a startling array of clean vectors to download
 * [https://www.templatemaker.nl/en/ Template Maker] and [https://www.festi.info/boxes.py/ Boxes.py] for all your box needs. Great for the [[Laser|laser]] or [[Vinyl Cutter|vinyl cutter]]
 * [https://blptrck.uber.space/flower/ Flower generator] and [https://beetles.bleeptrack.de/ beetle generator] by [https://bleeptrack.de/ bleeptrack]
-==Vector Artists/Inspiration==
+===Vector Artists/Inspiration===
 * [https://jasonwebb.io/ Jason Webb]
 * [http://manoloide.com/ Manolo Gamboa Naon]
 * Checkout the [https://twitter.com/hashtag/plottertwitter?lang=en #plottertwitter] hashtag on Twitter
-==Generators That Require Coding==
+===Generators That Require Coding===
 * [https://gist.github.com/fogleman/6fa9e69a92b45ad2d02f627dc483f326 Snowflakes] in Python, by [https://gist.github.com/fogleman Michael Fogleman]
-See also [[Generative Art]]
 ==See also==
+* [[Generative Art]]
+* [[Open Source Software]]
 * [https://github.com/beardicus/awesome-plotters#readme Awesome Plotters list]