Parallel Lines
Straight strokes of constant spacing and length, laid side-by-side. The simplest generator — and the best building block for layered woven patterns once you stack a few filters on top.
Parameters
Parallel Lines parameters
Line Count- How many parallel strokes to generate. Range 1–500, default 50. More lines fill the pattern area densely; fewer lines feel sparse and graphic.
Spacing- Distance between adjacent lines in mm. Range 0.1–20, default 2. Should usually be close to your nozzle line width so adjacent lines fuse into a solid band, or widened for a clearly striped look.
Length- Length of each stroke in mm. Range 10–500, default 200. The pattern is centered, so lines span from
-Length/2to+Length/2before rotation. Angle- Rotation of the whole bundle in degrees. Range −180 to 180, default 0 (vertical). Combine with other rotated copies (via the Transform filter) to build grids or moiré effects.
Resolution (pts/line)- Number of sample points per line. Range 2–500, default 100. Only matters when a downstream filter bends the lines — for a pure straight pass you can drop to 2 and save computation.
Typical use
- Base for weaves: add
sine-displacementorweave-offsetto turn straight lines into a fabric-style weave. - Striped textures: keep lines straight and tweak
Spacingto nozzle width for a crisp hatched panel. - Crosshatch: stack two Parallel Lines generators via a Transform-rotated copy to create X-cross patterns.
Related
- Fabric Sculpt Overview — how generators fit into the pattern / filter / stack pipeline.
- Wave Lines — built-in wavy version of the same idea.
- Sine Displacement filter — turn straight lines into sinusoidal curves.