Here is how Inkscape ui looks like with some of the tools highlighted we’ll use in this tutorial. We will create a cartoon head with mouth closed in one layer and opened in another. Using layers is a powerful concept to manage an image and create multiple frames of an image which can be used in animation.

Oh, and if any of you know a better way to accurately color all of those polygons, let me know! Thanks for reading.A quick tutorial to show how to use layers in Inkscape to generate image frame and use Jquery to create a simple animation. You can definitely take the extra time to do more detail, better coloring, etc. With the newest addition of Delaunay triangulation in Inkscape, we were able to easily create a low poly version of a woman’s face that actually looks pretty good. A quick trick to remedy this is to duplicate (control+D) the entire set of polygons over themselves. When you remove the Stroke paint, you’ll see tiny white spaces in between every triangle. Once you have all of your polygons colored, select them all and remove the Stroke paint. Go ahead and do every single triangle this way, which should only take a few minutes. Below, you can see I colored her lips accordingly. Thanks to a fellow reader from the comments section, you can simply use the Dropper tool and just keep hitting the Tab key to cycle through the triangles.

The concept here is to select each triangle with the Selection tool (F1) and then set the Fill color by using the Color Dropper tool (F7). Unfortunately, this next part is tedious because I can’t find a better way to do it. Also, Ungroup the wireframe, which is actually just a bunch of individual triangles. Below, I selected the wireframe and the image to move them away from the original dots, because manually deleting the dots would be a pain. Now you should have a full wireframe that accentuates details. Then hit Apply to watch the magic happen.

Change the type of diagram to Delaunay Triangulation along with the bounding box of the diagram to Automatic from selected objects. Select all of the dots and head up to Extensions > Generate from Path > Voronoi Diagram. As you can see below, I’m only doing her face at a pretty low detail. Here’s my finished dot map for the Delaunay triangulation.

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