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by Waterluvian 792 days ago
Oooh I see map projections. Could the plotter be coded to handle bottles of different contours?
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I could easily imagine a CMM-style contact probe to scan-in arbitrary shaped bottles, then allow the user to experiment with different projections in software before committing to the final plot.

Such capability is pretty common in the CNC world to account for the flatness (or lack thereof) of a work piece.