Drawing Rosette Patterns

[DGehman]

A couple of quick thoughts:

The arts & crafts, or Ruskin approach:
Let it be approximate. Your projects are beautiful. Do they have to approximate laser-cut, computer-controlled machined wood?

The geometric constructivist approach (spelled out in words, this appears far more complex than it is to do):
1. Set your canvas... 480 x 480... manually draw from corner to corner, establishing the center.

2.A. draw a working circle using the intersection of these lines as the origin.
2.B Strike a new working circle greater than 240pix radius, using the intersection of the working circle in 2.A. and one of the 45 degree lines from 1.
2.C. Clone this circle and move its origin to the corresponding origin opposite, right.
2.D. Clone this circle, move to corresponding origin bottom right.
2.E. Clone this circle, move to opposite origin, bottom left.
2.F. Draw lines from the intersections of these circles (fat ellipses in diagram below).

3. Continue bisecting areas as in step 2.

The attached XAR file has layers you can turn on and off to see the steps more clearly.

[handrawn]

heres something else that might be useful as another way of looking at things

[haakoo]

Hi,

In addition to Steve's post(#30)
You can select all(ctrl+a)and then align deadcenter(alignmenttool)

so my way would be;
create a square or make the canvas square
-create horizontal line(anchor point=center)
-clone first line,set the rotation box 90 degrees
-clone first line,set the rotation box 270 degrees
-clone first line,set the rotation box 45 degrees
-ctrl+a then align to center

Hans

[Egg Bramhill]

It can be very relaxing creating these rosettes.

[Egg Bramhill]

And another.

[Egg Bramhill]

And an animated one.

[haakoo]

Nice cutting Egg

Hans

[handrawn]

yes spot on there - are you going to marquet them? [thought I'd get in before john ]

[raynerj1]

That isn't fair egg.. first time I drank anything in a couple o years... and you put up that animated one... like wow dude!

[faeb]

Thank all of you for the helps. I was about ready to give up yesterday as I had became so frustrated but you guys have motivated me all over again. Maybe there is hope yet for me.
The rosetteboard was all hand carved by me with the use of mainly one knife. I love to do these but have had to work with someone else's designs. Now I want to do my own designs. That is why I am trying to learn this program. I have attached another of my projects to give you a better idea of what this is all about. There is no limit as to what can be made with these woodcarvings. The plate is 10 inches in dia.
faeb