(Pre) ANN: Pattern Toolkit Gallery -- 21st century plaids

[Erik Hansen]

beautiful 21st century plaids
reflecting the Scottish origin of Rev.

Erik Hansen

--- Wilhelm Sanke <sanke at hrz.uni-kassel.de>
wrote:

> I have added a gallery of images to my website
> <http://www.sanke.org/MetaMedia> (scroll down
> on the left and select
> "Pattern Art").
> 
> The images are examples created with my
> "Pattern Toolkit" built with
> Metacard/Revolution (for some reason it is
> impossible to build a
> standalone of this stack in the Revolution IDE,
> but it is possible in
> the leaner alternative Metacard IDE).
> 
> I intend to offer the toolkit as a free
> download in the middle of
> November. The GUI of this up to now very
> personal tool needs first to be
> cleaned up and organised, as there are more
> than 100 different functions
> and algorithms to create basic color patterns
> and to transform them into
> various secondary and tertiary patterns by
> means of different kinds of
> overlays, shifting, rotating, creating
> multi-directional color
> transitions (gradients), using vertical and
> horizontal flips and
> (partial) mirrors etc..
> 
> The toolkit is a further development of an
> older tool that used small
> fields as color units (compare my stack
> <www.sanke.org/Software/RevTestStacks.zip>
> which is also attached to
> Bugzilla 2217; see also my comments on page
> "Tools and Samples for
> Development" on my website concerning the so
> far unresolved difficulties
> for the Rev IDE).
> 
> The new toolkit now uses backcolors of chars in
> a 120x160 matrix
> (instead of the former 5400 fields) to achieve
> a satisfactory resolution
> that enables the user to enlarge the finally
> saved image. You can try
> out this for yourself after downloading the
> real-size JPEG images.
> 
> 
>  To navigate to the individual images click on
> the thumbs.-
> 
> As usual, there remains the question of the
> intentions and the
> usefulness of such a tool. I think a number of
> answers are possible.
> 
> In my experience it is a very creative tool,
> maybe mainly useless, but
> somehow fascinating as I find myself spending
> long hours experimenting
> with ever changing patterns.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Wilhelm Sanke
> <www.sanke.org/MetaMedia>

erik at erikhansen.org    http://www.erikhansen.org


	
		
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