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How do I design an exact circle tiling in Inkscape?
The central trick is that the entire figure is composed of eighteen identical 60° arcs, which are rotated by simple angles. All you have to do is create these arcs, rotate them, and put them into ...
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How to step and repeat in Inkscape (or Scribus) with live preview?
In Inkscape you can use the Interpolate extension. It's basically Inkscape's equivalent of making a step blend in Illustrator.
Draw a line with the Bézier tool F6. After making the first node, hold ...
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How can you create a preview window for seamless tile editing in photoshop
Here is a way to work on seamless tiles using Smart Objects.
Let's say that we want to do a 16x16 px tile. We only really need to see it repeated 3x3 times to check if the pattern works so we'll ...
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How to create color Tiled Clone with Inkscape?
The tutorial you linked to in your comment does work. I just tested it.
I suspect you have missed out the step that says you need to set the Stroke Paint to "Undefined". The tutorial goes on to ...
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Creating CM-Wallpaper pattern using Inkscape's Tiled Clones tool
I'd make a gradient (in the picture it goes from transparent to black) and would use the 'trace background color' option to influence the size of the dots.
Now, in the above picture, the dots aren't ...
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How to create this pattern of hexagon parts in Inkscape
Here's a different method that doesn't use tiled clones at all, just for the hell of it.
Before you begin enable the following snapping options: Snapping, Snap nodes paths and handles, Snap cusp ...
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Inkscape: Move tiled/cloned objects
It is possible with a work around.
Create the star inside a square with no fill and no stroke. Group the square and the star.
Clone the group.
Then you can double click the clone source to enter ...
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Best way to create a gif out of a tiled image
There are scripts such as this or this that will chop the image and export the tiles to files.
Then open an empty image of suitable size, and do File>Open as layers (you can select all the files in ...
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Best way to create a gif out of a tiled image
Use ImageMagick. This is exactly what the tool was made for.
Or to be more specific use the montage command of ImageMagick is for making montages. The montage documentation includes many examples.
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Create a simple shrinking square fractal with Inkscape and Tiled Clones
I wouldn't use Tiled Clones to create that.
Try this instead:
Switch on snapping options as shown in the example below
Open the Transform panel, and click on the Scale tab. Set the scaling as ...
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Tiling problem in krita
I think the problem is because you still have a selection made
To fix it, click Select > Deselect, after pasting, then move the artwork.
See this example
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Can not change tiled clones in Inkscape
Edit the clone source (the first one you made), then all the clones will update automatically as you edit it.
Here's an example showing the clone source being edited (left), and two clones updating (...
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Creating a periodic mesh of equilateral triangles for laser cutting
This can help get you on your way...
This is Illustrator but these are very simple tools which must also be available in Inkscape.
Basically, using a hexagon and lines to define your triangles
Then ...
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Inkscape tiled clones based on px
The easiest way would be to make the original hold an additional transparent rectangle. If you group it with the arrow, you can later delete it, after tiling.
Another way would be to calculate the ...
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How do I make a seamless gravel pattern but with different objects?
As an array of repeating items it's not difficult. There seems to be a few different shapes which resemble faces. Using faces is clever, because we (humans) spot effectively "it's a face". ...
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Created Tiled Print Layouts with Page Overlap in CorelDraw 2021
This answer will be a bit chaotic because I don't have the 2021 version and it is in Spanish. So the names of the options will have a different name than the one I am writing in (parentheses), but the ...
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Creating a periodic mesh of equilateral triangles for laser cutting
Use the axonometic grid, and snap to grid
Draw one triangle, and clone it (hint: Edit > Clone > Create Clone)
Move the clone away from the clone source, and duplicate it
Make your tiled ...
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Creating a periodic mesh of equilateral triangles for laser cutting
Thank you!
With the inspiration of your replies, I found a way of doing this quickly and precisely, which I would like to share.
Step 1: Axonometric grid
Go to Document Properties // Grid and create a ...
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How to create a tileable natural stone texture?
I got what I wanted by following this tutorial:
First, I deformed the original picture from the question so that it's all straight:
Then, I used Filters->Map->Make seamless. This produced the ...
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Photoshop Action to make mirrored tiling images
Never mind, I got it.
The trick was to use the Transform tool instead of dragging manually or using Offset.
Steps in the Action
Note: Assumes we are starting with a flat image.
1. Set Background ...
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Inkscape: Move tiled/cloned objects
Actually, you can have your clones do exactly what you're describing.
The default behavior in Inkscape is for the clones to not move when the original is moved.
But if you go to the Edit > ...
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How to step and repeat in Inkscape (or Scribus) with live preview?
You can use an extension (Extensions > Render > Grid...) to draw a grid automatically. Just choose a very high value for the horizontal spacing.
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Ideas to make these tiles look good.
I think one of the main issues with the boxes are that they look like 'zero states', and look really similar to the add button right next to them. I find it strange that you use square shapes for them....
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Ideas to make these tiles look good.
To save space as new categories/folders are created, you might consider a layout similar to Amazon Drive's current interface. The file categories (All files, Shared files, Deleted) are placed in a ...
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