On 8/12/06, n3storm <nestordiaz@...207...> wrote:
Sorry Bulia, but you are not getting the point, I think.
On the contrary, I think you are not getting the point of tiled clones.
A tileable pattern is not just a pattern that you tile, is a piece of image that once tiled you cannot notice where does one tile finnishes and where starts another.
Sure. And tiled clones is the best way to achieve that. Some of the examples of seamless tilings created very easily in Inkscape are in your share/examples folder and on this screenshot:
http://inkscape.osuosl.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.41-CVS-linux-tiles...
http://www.squidfingers.com/patterns/
They are complex patterns, not just chessboard like patterns.
Certainly. Inkscape supports all 17 symmetry groups, not just P1.
Designers make them by extending the image from the right to enter from the left and the top from the bottom so the designer is the one that makes the pattern tileable, not the software (very bad explained :) see second link).
Of course Inkscape won't make your pattern seamless for you. You still need to draw and edit it yourself. But with tiled clones this is trivially easy to make any pattern seamless.
The software helps for this task. He is asking for an icon view like view (again) to check the pattern being designed is ***seamless*** tileable.
Tiled clones *is* such a "view", with a lot of adjustable parameters.
See an example of the technique: http://veerle.duoh.com/index.php/blog/comments/creating_patterns_in_photosho...
Exactly the same can be easily done in Inkscape, only much easier and faster.
None.none wants Inkscape to simulte the mirroring or something like that, not sure how to exactly Inkscape can help in this task.
Easily. Some of the symmetry groups have mirroring, some not. Just take the trouble of exploring them.