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Cristian,
Are you looking to use a CNC to do milling, or are you looking to
minimize chemical use? The reason I ask is that the algorithm for the
minimizing chemical use is easier to implement than the one for the CNC
milling. If you take the 'round' bmp and erode the white one pixel
width at a time until the minimum width you want (say 2 pixels wide) is
achieved, that will work for chemical etching, but will not optimize for
mechanical. To do that, you have to get into graph theory, minimum
spanning trees, TSP, and the like.
I could probably do the image one for you, if you are interested.
Richard