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A face made out of lines by John LeMasney via lemasney.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This image is based in creative play with the stitch sub paths tool in Inkscape<\/a>. I discovered that you can create a really fun dimensional effect if you approximate the edges of an object in space as paths and then connect them using the stitch sub paths live path effect. I tried at first to make a profile without a real model<\/a> to work from, which was okay, but not really believable. I decided to go and find an image of somebody’s facial profile online, the solution to which turned out to be one of the first images I came to, an image of a guy named David Zuckerman. I liked the clean-cut profile and used it, and after I was all done, I went back to get the information to credit the photo and found out that he’s “a computer scientist<\/a> on Adobe Flash Builder<\/a> team leading the work on language intelligence, refactoring and other IDE goodness” ( ). That’s well… awkward. I wonder if I can talk him into using Open Source<\/a> software?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This image is based in creative play with the stitch sub paths tool in Inkscape. 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