Comments on: Pattern designs released under cc license

By: banor

banor — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:13:47 +0000

Wow, pretty sweet! Thanks so much, Dolf! Please give us a tutorial on how you create these patterns! That would be great.

Thanks, and merry Christmas!
-b

By: wolfram

wolfram — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:52:17 +0000

Thanx a lot for your gift, Macouno !

For those interested in the art of creating patterns by writing programs there's a powerful & exciting (free) tool available at

http://processing.org

under the same name. It's Java based, can be incorporated into WEBpages (via applet technology) and is capable of animation & interactive handlung of patterns.

There are also tutorials in bookform available (I recommend Ira Greenberg's volume) as well
as a huge collection of online examples & infos (there's also a user community you may contact).

By: macouno

macouno — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:55:48 +0000

Wow people… 3000+ downloads, and 3GB traffic in the 24 hours since this item was put up by Bart. That's a lot more than I expected, and really confirms to me that it was the right move to release!

Thanks again for all the positive responses!!

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:07:10 +0000

These are really nice. Thanks!

By: NCubed

NCubed — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:40:16 +0000

Thank you very much, it is generous.

I also love patterns, and have started using Blender to draw them. I'm looking forward to checking your .blends for ideas on how to improve my work – as well, of course, as just to enjoy what you've done.

Merry Christmas to you, too!

By: jazzroy

jazzroy — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:10:09 +0000

hi macouno,
i remember you were working on them during the conference, now you ended up in a beautyful work, congratulations!

By: macouno

macouno — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:24:27 +0000

Hey folks, thanks for the generous responses. I'm not planning a tutorial any time soon, but if you want to learn more about patterns this page is a good starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilings_of_regular_polygons

By: Jasper

Jasper — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:22:14 +0000

I like the textures that Dolf made; the 'real wall paper ' size of them is cool!

Would like to mention http://www.mapzoneeditor.com/ .
A real nice program too for procedural textures………………

By: ysvry

ysvry — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:47:58 +0000

great patterns, very generous of you to share them with us. Maybe you can also make a tutorial how you create such patterns in blender that would be awsome :)

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:36:14 +0000

Nice work, thanks !
Though I was a little disappointed that it's not procedural textures made using nodes… :P