Does anyone know of a way to draw figures that look like old-fashioned textbook illustrations, which I believe weere hand drawn in India ink? My father's physics books from the fifties are just beautiful.
If I had an infinite amount of time, I would love to convert this over to run in the browser / SVG.. I hope there are some enterprising young souls out there who are keen on the challenge!
Yes, I have seen those, thank you. They are indeed absolutely wonderful. But I had something else in mind. I posted a couple of examples under an adjacent reply.
Can you share some links or images? I'm becoming slowly fascinated with this sort of look and collecting them. I dream one day i'll have the time to make a component or charting library that implements them.
Alas, while I want to produce accurate and attractive figures, after trying hard for many years, I find that my talents just do not turn that way.
I write texts that are free, so I am unable to pay someone to do it. At this point I use Asymptote, which does a very good job in the accuracy area and is perfectly professional in appearance. But I just love these figures and I wish I could convince my computer to turn them out.
I think parent's suggestion could work great if you printed the Asymptote results and then traced them in ink and scanned those.
As for computer generating that style, I might look for brushes for Photoshop/GIMP/Illustrator/Inkscape that produce the style you are looking for, and then reverse engineer those or use scripting capabilities of whichever tool to produce the figures.
