Remove Dupate.. Lines? Try to "flatten" repettive lines? Boolean trickery?

[crevice (Chris)]

Hello,

I wanted to engrave a poppy from minecraft. Initially I wanted to make it by hand with squares, but ended up tracing the poppy image, changing the “cutoff” option each top on top of itself until all of the pixels in the image were outlined.

This resulted in some areas being traced on repeat, the thicker lines.

“Remove Duplicates” only does so much since there are overlaps in different areas from differently shaped, shapes (hopefully that makes sense).
poppy.lbrn2 (18.1 KB)

Cheers! I added the file incase a kind soul needed it to understand what I am trying to explain.

[bernd.dk (Bernd)]

Together with “remove overlapping lines” it is an optimized option, try playing the preview.

It should be noted that I have “constructed” your drawing from scratch with squares and I have avoided breaking whole lines.
…it’s a bit hard to explain, sorry

poppy-retur.lbrn2 (80.1 KB)

[crevice (Chris)]

Thank you so much. I have a lot to learn still and your example shows me things I should move towards.