A tree line, scratched
Plant a few stands in Buntwald, hand their outline to Scribe, and the forest comes back as a row of scratched crowns.
Four Buntwald stands, twelve trees, scratched at Layers 5: Powder Petal on Dark Slate Grey. Cropped from the free 1,748 px PNG.
Scribe scratches whatever lines it is given, not only letters. Buntwald has an export that hands it exactly the right lines: a planted scene reduced to the contour of every crown and the line of every trunk. What does a forest look like once it has been scratched like a tag?
Below is how the row above got made: the outline in one picture, two decisions about density, and the one choice that keeps a forest from turning into clouds. Open the Scribe settings to follow along; a link cannot carry a file, so the outline still has to be uploaded.
From a scene to an outline
Open buntwald.krshi27.art and click the canvas to plant. Each click plants a stand with the tree currently chosen under Species. Switching it between clicks gave spruce, beech, spruce, beech from left to right, all Open-grown at 5 m. In each stand's card below the canvas, Tree count went to 3, Horizontal range to 0.24 and Base size to 0.5.
Under Downloads, tick the terms and press SVG (outline). The filled mesh is not offered to visitors; the outline is the one built for this handoff. It holds 102 stroked shapes, under 50 KB against the thousands of triangles in the filled scene.
Above, the four stands on the Buntwald canvas. Below, the SVG (outline) download redrawn: crown contours and trunks, nothing filled. The outer trees are cut by the canvas edge in both.
Fewer trees make a better forest
The first attempt had seven trees in each of three stands. The outline came out so thick that Scribe returned three pale clouds with no trunks and no gaps. Three trees a stand, four stands and a wider spread left daylight between the crowns, and Scribe has something to scratch along.
Into Scribe
Open scribe.krshi27.art, switch Geometry source to SVG upload and drop the file into SVG file. Choose Solid colour under Background, set the background to Dark Slate Grey and Stroke colour to Powder Petal, and press Render. Nothing draws until you do. The default backdrop is the generated subway window; a flat colour keeps the eye on the row of crowns.
The two groups that matter here. The file is 48.7 KB; Layers 5, Scatter 0.0125 and Wander 0 are the settings behind the hero.
Layers decide how much forest is left
Layers sets how many offset copies of every line get scratched. The same outline, the same seed, three counts:
Layers 3, 10 and 24. At 3 each crown is a cage of single lines and the trunks stand out. At 10 the crowns have filled in. At 24 the row has closed into one pale band, and the trunks are gone.
Five stayed: the crowns are still separate and still hairy, and the trunks hold up the row. Past ten you are drawing a hedge.
From screen to object
Under Downloads, tick the terms once and PNG comes alive: a 1,748 px square with a small signature in the corner. Order a print of this creation sits underneath if you want the row on paper.
Other controls, one line each
Scatter sets how far each scratch drifts from its line, and Wander bends whole copies away.
Seed re-rolls the scratch and keeps everything else.
Stroke weight and Opacity take the lines from hairline to marker.
In Random Effects, the scribed PNG can go in as Blend image (optional) over a colour render of the same scene; Kappel, scratched into its own skyline shows a blend done that way.
Your turn
Plant your own stands at buntwald.krshi27.art, then open the Scribe settings and drop in the outline. If you like where it goes, send me what you made; I'll ask before I show it anywhere. Next, Kappel, scratched into its own skyline lays a scratched word over a real horizon.