arc-overhang
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Koch curve
I think it would be better to use Koch curve instead of a circles. O may be other fractal structure.
I think we always want to print convex shapes, concave section doesn't get puled towards already printed material but rather away from it and might droop
I think Hilbert space filling Curve would be better in multiple way than arc or Koch. Why ?
- It's not using arc but straight lines so it's faster on a cartesian or CoreXY machine (no need to interpolate/sample the curve)
- It can adapt any shape (convex or concave), once you reach the outline, you simply follow it until it intersect the curve and resume from here
- It never goes other itself twice. If you either need to make a 2nd layer, the curve will not pass via the same point, you can rotate the seed axis by 90° and it'll intersect the previous lines orthogonal, which is the best in terms of strength.
- Doesn't require so much computation: once you've set up the "line" actual width (which is the extrusion width minus wanted overlap), it only requires rotating the extrusion direction by 90° steps, no cosine/sinus or any polar equation to solve (see here)