Make: Volume 93

PROJECTS: Squishy Tech

You want the engraving to be deep enough that

your relief pattern is clear, but not so deep that

the pattern itself becomes delicate. As it goes

through the press it gets squished a lot, so

delicate elements will break off.

I also got really sidetracked with this project

by v3ga, which re-creates Jean-Paul Delahaye’s

1985 book Geometric and Artistic Graphics: Design

Generation with Microcomputers in p5.js (github.

com/v3ga/nouveaux_dessins_geometriques_

et_artistiques). The book itself is very beautiful,

and v3ga’s designs are really fun to play with. I

wanted to cut some into blocks for printing, but

unfortunately they ...