Single Line Art Generator
Convert any photo into plotter-ready line art — squiggles, one-line spirals, flow fields, crosshatching, or contour maps. Everything runs locally in your browser; the SVG downloads with real-millimeter sizing for LightBurn or any plotter software.
Drop a photo here or click to upload
Portraits and high-contrast photos work best. Your image never leaves the browser.
Style
SVG output: one stroke path per line, sized in real mm — drops straight into LightBurn, or any pen plotter software. Single-line strokes engrave far faster than raster fills.
Preview appears here after you upload an image
Why single-line art?
Raster-engraving a photo means the laser head sweeps every row of the image — a 200mm portrait can take 30+ minutes. Stroke-based line art gives the same visual richness as vector paths the machine follows directly, often finishing in a fraction of the time. On diode lasers with a pen attachment, these files plot beautifully on paper — and for AxiDraw-style pen plotters they're exactly the format you want.
Each style maps image tone to line behavior: Squiggle tightens sine waves in dark areas, Spiral renders your whole photo as one unbroken line, Flow Field follows the image's natural contours like brush strokes, Crosshatch layers classic pen-and-ink hatching, and Contour turns tones into a topographic map.
