Hi Valerie, I really like your idea. Have you seen this java applet - designed to explore penrose tilings. Its not guide based in the same way as yours but instead you manipulate exemplars and see the result. You can see the interdependence and how your guides might correspond to edges on these tiles. Not sure if useful to you or not ? http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/software/penrose/ Cheers...
On 3/5/2012 9:26 PM, Valerie wrote:
Some time ago I was thinking up possible new interfaces for Inkscape's
tiled clones function, and had compiled them here for now:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Tiling_tool
Recently I've been giving some more thoughts to creating seamless patterns, in particular the "edge scenarios" of normal tiling. A lazy person (like me) would probably find it a pain in the neck to make new tiles for the edges and have to realign everything.
What if you could define those edge scenarios in a single basic tile? In my tiling tool proposal, I proposed tile guides where you can add "guide points" and "guide point pairs" along the boundaries. Guide points drawn on one side will automatically appear on all the other relevant sides so you know where to connect.
http://postimage.org/image/ae0dae6mh/ http://postimage.org/image/kqmnwh05l/
When you have nodes located on a guide point, applying "fuse tiles"
automatically connects these nodes to the corresponding nodes on the next tile.
So what if we make it so that all parts of the pattern Outside the basic tile gets cut away as necessary according to these guide points?
Edge tiles however will retain the original extremities. The result:
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/5e38w
This concept can also be applied to radial tiling, for both rotation and resizing tiles:
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/sbhmo
I don't believe I've seen a program where you can easily create seamless tiles for all the different wallpaper groups, and this certainly makes things a little easier. Thoughts?
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