Better Tiling Backgrounds

[gwpriester]

https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...ds-for-Dummies

[Egg Bramhill]

Here's one I'm working on. At present the fill is a bitmap but I'm trying to get it as an svg. Esher.

[Acorn]

Here's one I'm working on. At present the fill is a bitmap but I'm trying to get it as an svg. Esher.

Egg, when cookie cutting complex shapes, I find Convert Line to Shape is very powerful.

ACORN

[gwpriester]

Going in Circles http://gwpriester.xara.hosting/SVG%2...kground%20III/

[gwpriester]

Cane Raising http://gwpriester.xara.hosting/SVG%2...ground%20IIII/

[Acorn]

@GaryP, I like how you've taken to these.

Here is my latest:


Acorn

[gwpriester]

Triangles then http://gwpriester.xara.hosting/SVG%2...ackground%20V/

[gwpriester]

Block Party http://gwpriester.xara.hosting/SVG%2...ckground%20VI/

[Acorn]

Happy to be proved wrong but I have developed an approach for handling hexagons and isometric cube faces that renders in integral pixel values.
It is an approximation to root 3 as a fraction: ~97/56.

In my design, a cube face is 97 x 112 px. [The 112 is double 56 and is part of the formula involving sin(30deg) = 0.5, which is used as part of the Rotate and Skew operations]
Three aligned cube faces present as a hexagon, 168 x 194 px.

You can integer scale up with any of these:

1. Hexagon 168 x 194 px
2. Hexagon 97 x 112 px
3. Hexagon 84 x 97 px

Avoid trying to scale down as you get stuck with pixel fractions.

Useful in constructing hexagonal repeat tilings.

Xara - Cubes & Hexagons.xar

I have included a technique using Stepped Fills and Transparency as a method to "slice" a shape.

Acorn

[gwpriester]

I just tried this with 168 x 195 and it works fine.

But nesting the hexagons together creates a pixelated amount.