Frieze Designing Challenge

[Acorn]

Contributors and readers - the Big Reveal.

1. Use the SmartShape End position controls to display a single blue-white blob with the blue bar.
2. Ctrl+Left-Click the blob.
3. You can now colour it, fill and line.
4. You can change the Line width.
5. You can use meta-keys with the black controls to reshape and resize the blob.
6. Importantly, you can switch to the Shape Tool (F4) and add to, delete and move around the blob control points.
7. The Big Reveal:
   
   1. Create an Shape or use a Symbol or Text Area and fit over the blob, keeping it inside the Fill. This can be your modified Blob.
   2. Ctrl+Left-Click your Shape.
   3. Then Shift+Ctrl+Right-Click the blob.
   4. Pick Combine Shapes > Intersect Shapes.
   5. Ctrl+Left-Click the blob or bar and colour. A No Fill is a valid selection.

Timeline 01 - The Big Reveal.xar
The trick is to Join Shapes as separate or Grouped Shapes result in a fail.

Happy friezing.

Acorn

[Rik]

I thought I'd have a go at a repeating design.



And if you position three of them, above each other, you can then get a good pattern going!


Here's the .xar file: timeline repeat.xar

[Acorn]

I thought I'd have a go at a repeating design.



And if you position three of them, above each other, you can then get a good pattern going!


Here's the .xar file: timeline repeat.xar

Excellent Rik.

All you have to do is learn how to turn corners!

Acorn

[Jonopen]

Ah, Got it! Although, on reflection I would probably make a Scatter brush for most things like this - and they can go round corners!

[Acorn]

Ah, Got it! Although, on reflection I would probably make a Scatter brush for most things like this - and they can go round corners!

What? you rather use a Scatter Brush! A technology that Xara has had in place for over 10 years. One that produces Lines that can deliver randomly colours and be scaled? One that fits to curves? One that can be converted to static vector shapes?

Surely not, what then would be the point of a SmartShapes Timeline that actually cannot deliver a timeline?

Acorn

[handrawn]

over 15 if not 20 years.... lol