(Pre) ANN: Pattern Toolkit Gallery

[xavier.bury at clearstream.com]

Very impressive!

Im curious to see how you made that ;)

cheers
Xavier

use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com wrote on 24/10/2005 22:55:33:

> 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>
> 
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