KALEIDOSCOPE PATTERNS!
The easy and amazing way...! Time: Approx. 2 minutes.
But it's hard to let it be once you get the steam up.
I stole this from Stephen Robinson over at XaraXone.com but with he's permission, Thanks Steve. Link to he's original tutorial at the bottom of this page.
This one is so simple to do, yet so much fun, that every one can do it with a litle practice in less than two minutes, all you need is to locate the Transformation Docker and the Flip buttons on your Property Bar, and if you know how to draw one rectangle and an Elipse then we are ready to start this tutorial, and I promise that you will have a lot of fun doing this one, Me, I can draw this kind of patterns in hours, just for the amazing result I'll get every time, no two ones will ever be the same.
The easy and amazing way...! Time: Approx. 2 minutes.
But it's hard to let it be once you get the steam up.
I stole this from Stephen Robinson over at XaraXone.com but with he's permission, Thanks Steve. Link to he's original tutorial at the bottom of this page.
This one is so simple to do, yet so much fun, that every one can do it with a litle practice in less than two minutes, all you need is to locate the Transformation Docker and the Flip buttons on your Property Bar, and if you know how to draw one rectangle and an Elipse then we are ready to start this tutorial, and I promise that you will have a lot of fun doing this one, Me, I can draw this kind of patterns in hours, just for the amazing result I'll get every time, no two ones will ever be the same.
Fig. 1. Transformation Docker, and then the Flip and Combine Buttons.
Start by selecting the Rectangle Tool in the toolbox to the left at your workspace, and draw a rectangle, after that, draw one elipse and place it on top like in this Fig. 2. below.
Fig. 2. The first set of rectangle and elipse in place.
Fig. 2. The first set of rectangle and elipse in place.
Now select both shapes and hit the plus(+) sign on your numeric keyboard (if you'r on a laptop without a numeric keyboard, just copy and paste with Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V), look at the Status Bar and it will say 2 Objects Selected on Layer#, DON'T DESELECT go to Property Bar and hit Flip Horizontally, now we have 4 object in total.
See Fig. 3.
See Fig. 3.
Fig. 3. Four objects in total.
The next step will be to select all 4 objects, hit the plus(+) sign again and without deselecting hit the Flip Vertically button, you now have 8 objects in total.
Select all, fill with any color you like and remove the outline.
See Fig. 4.
Fig. 4. Eight objects selected, with fill and no outline, not that exiting, but wait.
All you need to do now is press CTRL+L to combine the eight objects and get something like this.
See Fig. 5.
Fig. 5. Are you impressed? I'm impressed.
Open the Transformation Docker and type in 90 degree and hit Apply To Duplicate, select both and Combine.
See Fig. 6.
Fig. 6. Still not impressed?
Type 45 Combine, 22,5 Combine and last 11,25.
See Fig. 7.
Fig. 7. Not that bad for a first try?
You can start with two perfect circles side by side, hexagones, octagone or what ever your imagination will let you.
Anything that divides the 360 degrees evenly will generate cool patterns.
Besides 90. 45, 22.5, 11.25, here are some others:
90, 60, 30, 15
72, 90, 12, 6
Here is the link to Steves tutorial over at XaraXone.com,
The original Tutorial.
In closing!
I am pleased if you have read the tutorial this far, and if you learned something new, it will make me smile for at least a week. If however you do not understand anything at all, and send me an angry E-mail to tell me that I write lousy tutorials. Please tell me what is wrong, and what can be done about it, Then I promise that I will be happy for a whole month.
So, drop Me an E-mail to let me know.
Thanks, Finn
Anything that divides the 360 degrees evenly will generate cool patterns.
Besides 90. 45, 22.5, 11.25, here are some others:
90, 60, 30, 15
72, 90, 12, 6
Here is the link to Steves tutorial over at XaraXone.com,
The original Tutorial.
In closing!
I am pleased if you have read the tutorial this far, and if you learned something new, it will make me smile for at least a week. If however you do not understand anything at all, and send me an angry E-mail to tell me that I write lousy tutorials. Please tell me what is wrong, and what can be done about it, Then I promise that I will be happy for a whole month.
So, drop Me an E-mail to let me know.
Thanks, Finn
