Hi,

I have written a simple program which generates a random snowflake style thing on screen.  The idea is kids can generate their own unique snowflake and it gets cut out from an attached laser cutter.

I built the flakes as a series of line statements with a rotate after each branch is built.

1.   for (int i=0; i<6; i++) {
2.     line(0,0,0,mainstalkLength);
3.    
4.     int frondSeparation=stalkLength / numFronds;
5.     int frondStart=20;
6.     int newfrondLength=frondLength;
7. 
   
8. // decorate
9.     for (int z=0; z<numFronds; z++) {
10.       line(0, 0, stalkLength, 0);
11.       //LHS
12.       line(frondStart, 0, frondStart+frondAngle, newfrondLength);
13.       //RHS
14.       line(frondStart, 0, frondStart+frondAngle, -newfrondLength);
15.       frondStart+=frondSeparation;
16.       newfrondLength=int(newfrondLength*frondDecay);
17.     }
18.     rotate(PI/3);
19.   }

I'm using the following to alter the thickness and styling of the above lines.

1.   strokeCap(strokeCap_);
2.   strokeJoin(strokeCap_);
3.   strokeWeight(strokeWeight_);

Unfortunately when output as pdf this is no good to the laser cutter as it wants a cut line to follow, i.e. a stroke of the stroke.

Rather than rewriting my program to output laser ready lines (i.e. manually achieve what the stroke commands are doing for me), is there a way to take the generated image and somehow apply a further stroke to the whole thing, so the PDF can be sent straight to the cutter?  I'm expecting a no, but you never know.

I can post the whole thing if it's useful.  It's quick and dirty...

Thanks,
Simon