Daniel van Willigen from Panoramic Designs in Holland has several great scripts for Adobe Illustrator that run in versions CS3 and above. He started off with BoxIt and CircleIt which create fields of 3d bars and cylinders. His latest include TotallyTwisted for making the type of fine lithography geometric patterns found in the background of currency, and TraceVectorToScript for recreating drawn artwork programmatically with JavaScript commands. Very helpful if you need to generate a company logo or some other artwork as part of an automated process.
Get the ZIP archive of the files (59 kb) »
Installation how-to:
- Quit Illustrator
- Copy the files into the Illustrator application folder’s “Presets” » “Scripts” subfolder
- After restarting Illustrator you can find the scripts in the menu “File” » “Scripts”
- Choose a script to run. The script will make a new document to place the results.
- TIP: You can create subfolders in the scripts folder to organize your scripts