On 03-02-12 09:20, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
Hi!
I missed the start of this thread. In case it has been forgotten (I did): http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/inkscape-tiled-clones/
Those are indeed quite nice!
Breaking it down to the transformations instead of listing the wallpaper groups might shorten the path from a user's intention to result in some cases, but would hide the space of unique options. It's rather hard to assemble the groups from scratch ...
You might be right, but I'm not 100% convinced just yet :) At least some of the wallpaper groups are probably easier to think of in terms of "what they do", rather than the entire pattern at once. On the other hand, if you have nice pictograms... There are, after all, only 17 possibilities. However, if one looks not just at the wallpaper groups, but at symmetry in general, then it might make a lot more sense to think about it from the point of view of rotation centers and such.