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Creating Embroidered Charts with R and ImageMagick

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by behnamoh

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Related: Does anyone know how we can have monochrome plots that look like the ones you see in old books? They were gorgeous, especially with how creative they had to be in an era that had no UNICODE characters. The ink would also leak and often the lines were rounded and spread out a bit.
I was able to get close: https://imgur.com/a/zLiYlnG

by 1a527dd5

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I love ImageMagick. I've used it a few times to make a PDF look scanned.
convert -density 90 input.pdf -rotate 0.5 -attenuate 0.2 +noise Multiplicative -colorspace Gray output.pdf

by throwaway2046

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That's quite an authentic looking effect! Using it for charts is definitely not the first thing that comes to mind, but it does make them more appealing in a way.