My pylivarot project is an attempt to make this functionality within python. I ran into a few issues creating binary distributions:. Martino Pilia has a great blog post about how to use cmake with setuptools, and my setup. However, I added a few extra hacks. Cricut Design Space , the software used to send designs to Cricut cutting plotters, does not handle the transform element on svg very well, which is frustrating because Inkscape loves to render paths with that attribute, rather than applying the transform directly to the path or object.
It has one path object representing the cuts I want to make in a piece of yellow cardstock on the bottom layer, and one group of paths to be traced out with a marker on the top layer:. The telltale sign about why this is rendered like this is to look at whether a transformation matrix is being applied to this element:.
Some transforms Cricut Design Space can handle okay, but some it cannot. A way I fixed the transforms on this project was:. For example, I created a tiling that uses the rotate transform to put the trapezoids in the right place. But in Cricut, the trapezoids ignore this rotation, and all stack on top of each other:.
Now the tiling renders correctly:. One of the concepts that Gardner introduced to a larger audience were Polyominos, extrapolation of dominos with larger numbers of squares. The shapes in Tetris are pentominos; they are shapes made up of 5 squares. In November, , she saw this article in Science News:. My mom made quilts of these two tilings between and , which was impressive because I was born between the two quilts. The quilts hung in the dining room of my childhood home.
I spent many hours staring at them instead of practicing piano sorry mom. When my parents downsized after retirement, they gave me the quilts, and they now hang in my bedroom. My baby loves looking at the quilts because they are bold colours with sharp edges. The packing algorithm is:. Using a single thread of my core i7 k, this algorithm takes 3.
