Forgeplot
Plotter-ready generative art
$4.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Thirty-four generative styles that draw real single-stroke art — export a plotter-ready SVG for your AxiDraw or iDraw, or the same piece as a razor-sharp wallpaper.
Make generative art that a pen plotter can actually draw.
Forgeplot turns simple sliders into intricate line art built for pen plotters. Pick a style, tune it by feel, and export a clean, ready-to-plot SVG — correctly sized for your machine, organised by pen, and optimised so the pen takes the shortest path. Not plotting today? The same piece exports as a crisp wallpaper at the exact size of your iPhone, iPad or Mac.
Everything is real single-stroke vector art, built that way from the ground up. No raster tracing, no import-export juggling, no code.
THIRTY-FOUR GENERATORS, WITH MORE IN EVERY UPDATE
• Fields & flow — Flow Field, Topo Contours, Ridgelines, Warp Grid, Moiré
• Growth & organic — Differential Growth, Space Colonization, L-System Plant, Fractal Tree, Particle Trails, Flocking
• Packing & mesh — Circle Packing, Voronoi, Dot Field
• Tiling & symmetry — Truchet Tiles, Wave Collapse, Subdivision, Mandala, Maze
• Curves & lines — Harmonograph, Lissajous, Spirograph, Superformula, Space-Filling Curve
• From your photos — Hatched Photo, TSP Portrait, Stipple, Halftone, String Art, Low-Poly, Squiggle
• Simulations — Reaction–Diffusion, Cellular Automata, Strange Attractor
BUILT FOR REAL MACHINES
• Presets for AxiDraw (A4, Letter, A3, SE/A1, MiniKit) and iDraw, plus any custom size
• True physical sizing — a 210 mm piece measures 210 mm in Inkscape
• One layer per pen, in drawing order — plot one colour at a time and swap pens between layers
• Colour By: every generator can split its lines by what they mean — trunk and canopy, old and new growth, tile orientation, tone — so a two-pen plot says something
• Path optimisation that typically cuts pen-up travel by 90% or more
• Hidden-line removal and multi-pass for ink saturation
• Plot preview: watch the pen path and see time, ink and stroke count before you commit
ONE PIECE, EVERY SCREEN
• Export wallpapers at your device's exact resolution — iPhone, iPad, Mac, 4K, square
• Recompose regenerates the piece to fill a new shape instead of cropping it
• Ink-on-paper or inverted
YOURS, EXACTLY
• Every piece is saved as a recipe — generator, seed and settings — so it reproduces identically, at any size, forever
• A personal gallery on device; nothing is collected, nothing is tracked
Pen plotters connect to a computer over USB, so Forgeplot exports and hands off: AirDrop to your Mac or save to Files, then plot from Inkscape (with the AxiDraw extension) or saxi.
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Information
- Seller
- Michael Russo
- Size
- 2.1 MB
- Category
- Graphics & Design
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Michael Russo
