Conniekat8 opened this issue on Apr 27, 2007 ยท 1329 posts
FranOnTheEdge posted Tue, 15 January 2008 at 9:34 AM
A way to make a fairly complex pattern repeat is to create the small complex bit first, then to paste that into a layer - & in order to change the orientation of each segment, I keep the original small pattern open (in whatever image prog you are using)
create a big new one,
paste the first copy into one corner
rotate the original,
copy the image again,
paste into new layer in biggy (it arrives in the new orientation) and poisition carefully to line up with layer 1,
rotate small pattern again,
copy,
paste into new layer,
repeat over and over again, until you have the big image you want.
You can use this to create mosaic type images - adding borders and different combinations inbetween here and there.
Like you could use a celtic knott duplicated 4 times in one corner - then copy that and duplicate it in the other 3 corners, and enclose with a border, plus use another pattern - dunno, checks maybe? to fill in the centre of the image, again separating with borders etc and end up with a roman mosaic.
But you've probably done that before anyway....
I've used that sort of operation for a few things, including lately to create a caustic pattern.
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