Connect the dots

This repository houses some "connect the dots" pictures with Christian themes.

Downloading

If you try to download the SVG files using a web browser, they can break due to the way browser handles them. In this case, you should instead download the ZIP archive with all the files in it or use a command line tool, e.g.

    wget 'https://git.koszko.org/connect-the-dots/plain/cup-of-passion.svg' \
        -O ./cup-of-passion.svg

Drawing workflow

Pictures here are initially sketched with pencil and paper. They are then scanned and opened with Inkscape. The actual vector image gets drawn over the initial sketch (in a separate Inkscape layer).

Every drawing includes a line (an open sequence of connected segments, without curves) named (inside Inkscape) as "connect-the-dots". This repository contains a GNU Guile script make-points.scm which is then used to add dots with labels on the corners of the line. Sample invokation of the script (under a UNIX-like system with Guile installed) looks like this:

    ./make-points.scm                    \
        --input=cup-of-passion.svg       \
        --output=cup-of-passion-work.svg \
        --font-size=12.5

The modified image is then opened in Inkscape again and the labels are manually rearranged to collide with each other and with other picture elements as little as possible. It is still possible to remove a corner and its label at this point. Subsequent invokation of make-points.scm on the modified picture replaces the dots with new ones and renumbers those labels that have not been removed. The labels remain in the positions they were moved to by the designer.

The final picture can be exported (e.g. to a PDF) after setting sketch and line layers to invisible in Inkscape.

Copying

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The contents of this repository are available under the Creative Commos Zero v1.0 license. The repository follows the REUSE v3.0 specification.