Comment by marcus_holmes

4 days ago

I'm curious about what difference the pen plotter makes?

Isn't the prompt just asking the LLM to create an SVG? Why not just stop there?

I guess for some folks it's not "real" unless it's on paper?

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just6979  3 days ago

I assume it was to force the LLM to "think" about creating physical art as opposed to just a digital representation in a file. I'd bet the responses would be different if it was told to just look at the SVGs instead of photos of the plots. Perhaps less kitschy art-critic-speak and more technical analysis of the document. In other words, what parts of the training corpus are boosted by framing it as physical art vs just a digital representation.

zahlman  4 days ago

I tend to think of plotters as very old technology. What software would one use nowadays to feed SVG to a plotter?

  • bzzzt  4 days ago

    They still exist, but more as a maker hobby and/or art device than as a 'big printer' like those used for stuff like cartography in the past. A big advantage of plotters is they don't have to carry a pen, but can also (laser) cut or burn stuff. There are multiple tools for converting SVG to the gcode plotter language.