Designing patterned panels with the Voronoi Panel Generator

Difficulty: easy. Time: 15 minutes to design, cut time depends on pattern density. Methods: laser cutting or 3D printing.

Pattern-filled panels are the pieces that make people ask how you did it: organic voronoi cells, honeycomb grids, hypnotic Hilbert curves, all rendered as a connected lattice inside a solid frame. They work as wall art, lamp shades, trivets, room divider inserts, jewelry, and speaker grilles.

The generator handles the hard geometry: every cell wall is connected, the lattice meets the frame cleanly, and wall thickness is enforced everywhere so the cut result is actually structural instead of confetti.

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What You'll Need

Laser: 3 mm laser-grade plywood or acrylic; patterns in clear or frosted acrylic are stunning with light behind them
3D printing: any FDM printer; a second color for the base plate looks sharp
Anodized standoff spacers for floating wall-mount panels

Step 1 - Shape the panel

Open the tool and pick the panel Shape: Rectangle, Circle, Octagon, or Heart. Set the size (width and Height for rectangles, with Corner Radius), then set the Frame Width, the solid border that gives the lattice its strength and a place to mount.

Step 2 - Choose and tune the pattern

Pattern: Lines, Dots, Waves, Concentric, Hilbert, Hexagonal, or Voronoi. Voronoi reads organic and natural; Hexagonal reads technical; Hilbert is one continuous folded line that rewards close inspection.
Cell Size controls pattern density and Wall Thickness controls how chunky the lattice is. For laser cutting keep walls at 1.5 mm or more in 3 mm stock, or the lattice gets fragile.
Pattern-specific extras appear as needed: Line Angle for lines and waves, Wave Amplitude for waves, Order for the Hilbert curve, and a Seed to reroll voronoi layouts until one feels right.
For 3D printing, the 3D Print section adds Extrusion Depth and an optional Base Plate with its own thickness, turning the open lattice into a backed relief panel.

Step 3 - Export

Download SVG for cutting, or STL/3MF for printing. The SVG is a single cut layer: the outer outline plus every cell opening.

Choose Your Build Method

Cut the lattice

Expect a long cut: a dense voronoi panel is mostly cut path. Run a small test square first to confirm your walls survive handling.
Cut inner cells before the outer outline if your software allows ordering, so the panel never moves while cells are cutting.
Pop the waste cells out gently from the back; a dense pattern can hold dozens of loose pieces.
Mask acrylic on both sides to avoid flashback marks across the many cell edges.
Mount with standoffs about 20 mm off the wall and let raking light throw the pattern as shadow; the shadow is half the artwork.

Make It Yours

Heart-shaped voronoi panel in frosted acrylic over a warm LED puck for an anniversary light.
Hexagonal pattern trivets in octagon outlines, printed with a base plate in kitchen colors.
Four rectangle panels with the same seed family as a sliding-door or cabinet insert set.
A Hilbert curve panel as nerd decor: one continuous line filling the whole frame.
Layer a voronoi lattice over a contrasting solid backer cut from the same outline for two-tone wall art.
Waves pattern with high amplitude in blue acrylic reads instantly as water for beach-house decor.
Make a lamp shade by cutting four rectangle lattice panels and joining them into a box around a bulb.

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