Tessellating patterns

Since as long as I can remember I've always had a fascination with the drawings and prints by M.C. Escher.

https://mcescher.com (official MC Escher website)

I was thrilled when I had the opportunity in 2015 to go to the exhibition of his work at Dulwich Picture Gallery in London. It was such a revelation to see original copies of his work. You don't get anywhere near the same level of detail and experience the paper texture in books, even in glossy art books.

Anyway, here's something that I made around that time, inspired by his wonderful work.

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That would make a super poster, Jonopen.

Nice, but there's something fishy about this image. :)

You can create an entry for my tiling backgrounds challenge here https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...ound-Challenge

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Originally Posted by gray

That would make a super poster, Jonopen.

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I rarely print things out nowadays but thanks for the idea. Being based on vectors it should scale up ok.

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Originally Posted by gwpriester

Nice, but there's something fishy about this image. :)

You can create an entry for my tiling backgrounds challenge here https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...ound-Challenge

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:D How did I miss that challenge? I’ll have a go in the next few days.

Here’s something also Escher related I’ve just found whilst rummaging my old hard drive.

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Nice one, Jonopen. Making me hungry too this morning....

Hi Jono, I've been messing about with tessellating recently too. Works well on bitmap fills but I'm having issues trying to use svg fills. I keep getting thin borders. Here's a bitmap fill one that works fine.

You can get some interesting results if you clone then rotate the fill 90 degrees then apply a 50%ish colour dodge transparency. I attach the repeating tile.

You can also create triangular tessillations. This one is the same purple shape over drawn in three different ways and rotated 60 degrees at a time.

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Originally Posted by Jonopen

I rarely print things out nowadays but thanks for the idea. Being based on vectors it should scale up ok.

:D How did I miss that challenge? I’ll have a go in the next few days.

Here’s something also Escher related I’ve just found whilst rummaging my old hard drive.

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This one is great too, Jono.

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Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill

You can also create triangular tessellations. This one is the same purple shape over, drawn in three different ways and rotated 60 degrees at a time.

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I like it Egg

Like them all Egg

Very nice Egg. Loads of possibilities. Just add imagination!

I've just had a quick trawl through a few tessellating images I've uploaded to TG over the years. There's even one that must have been inspired by you! (Egg). And thanks Larry and for the scribbles.

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All great stuff Jono. It's fun. Here's my latest with a seamless tile:

Final one for tonight:

ALL very nice Jono and Egg,

Well since no one is coming to my challenge . . .

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Originally Posted by gwpriester

Well since no one is coming to my challenge . . .

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Gary, I think they will come. It probably requires more detail into extracting a repeating tile that is a rectangle without gaps or line widths.

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Or maybe a tutorial but I am not sure I have the energy to do that right now. Egg did one a long time ago but for some reason Malwarebytes will not let me go to the page.

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Originally Posted by gwpriester

Well since no one is coming to my challenge . . .

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Very nice. I am on my way, but I've got a few distractions at the moment, like my shiny new (Mac) computer! :D

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Originally Posted by gwpriester

Well since no one is coming to my challenge . . .

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Did I miss something? What is the challenge, Gary?

Larry - https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...011#post639011