At our Zoom meeting this week Jane showed us what she had been doing to pass some time during a rainy spell.She is a whizz with technical stuff and can explain what she did so much better, so over to Jane .........
This was a bit of rainy day playing in Illustrator.
For each pattern I created a square tile using basic geometric shapes and then used a piece of code called a script to copy and paste the tile 36 times.Each time the tile is pasted it is randomly rotated by 0,90,180 or 270 degrees, creating a different variation of the pattern every time the code is run.
This is based on the mathematical concept of Truchet tiles and works with square tiles that are not rotationally symmetrical.They can be used to tile the plane indefinitely without repeating the pattern.
I learnt how the code works through a short course by Melissa Wiederrecht on Skillshare.
I haven't made any plans for these (apart from making more!),but could see two of them as patchwork.By the way I did change the colours on one pattern after it was made ,in case you are wondering why the tiles don't all match the patterns.
What a great way to play with a computer instead of just surfing.
It will be interesting to see how far she takes this, and what might result.
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