How do they do this?????

[peachpost]

How do they create this type of complex pattern? I am assuming they use a progamme like Illustrator, but have no idea how to go about it - can anyone help?

Thankyou

[defjoe]

alot of layers

[EC]

I knew I saw something awhile back on how to do this, and I'm quite impressed that I found it.

http://creativebits.org/freehand/rediscover_the_spirograph

[DeleteYourself]

http://www.math.duke.edu/education/ccp/materials/mvcalc/spirograph/spirograph1a.jpg

[MD]

That is the first thing I thought of DY.
It's christmas sale time - they should be pretty cheap :D

[Jimeda Fork]

What if I didn't go to Duke?

[Mynock]

Only Duke students are smart enough to use them.

[Jimeda Fork]

Damn!

[TheBluePanda]

I remember those things. I used to get so frustrated when the thing would move during spirals and ruin it.

[Broacher]

Ugh. But it's easy with either spiroscripts, or blend groups along paths.

[peachpost]

http://www.math.duke.edu/education/ccp/materials/mvcalc/spirograph/spirograph1a.jpg

Yes, I had thought of that too, but its too uniform and I don't have my old spirograph anyway. But thanks for the suggestion

[EC]

Just to clarify, is this: http://creativebits.org/freehand/rediscover_the_spirograph not what you're looking for?

[peachpost]

I knew I saw something awhile back on how to do this, and I'm quite impressed that I found it.

http://creativebits.org/freehand/rediscover_the_spirograph


Thanks EC, that might come in useful!

[EC]

you're welcome. I just wanted to make certain you saw the link. good luck. :)

[Craig B]

That holding down tilde trick while drawing can keep me entertained for hours.

[Satchel]

That holding down tilde trick while drawing can keep me entertained for hours.


that's what it is... I was trying to figure that out.
thanks,
S.

[peachpost]

That holding down tilde trick while drawing can keep me entertained for hours.

Yes, that's a pretty nifty trick and one that is mentioned in the link EC kindly provided

[manu martin]

make two lines or curves and blend in Illustrator or Freehand
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[PrintDriver]

^That's what Broacher said^

[clairabelle]

ive just been taken back to when i was 9 and got a spirograph for christmas lol but yeh i love the logo, it looks quite difficult but its maybe not as hard as it seems, if you've got photoshop and freehand and stuff then ur sorted but i could be wrong, i am only a student afterall!!!

[peachpost]

Thanks for all your input and suggestions guys!


With all your help I'm sure I'll figure it out :)

[graphicd00d]

You can also use this photoshop filter. Sinedots (http://moonsdesigns.com/SinedotsAddicts/)

[kerrysmagicshirt]

AGHHHHH Notice the horrid clip art in the background.

[Ned]

I am sure that drawing while holding down tilde will be the most fastest and most effective way of producing this effect, Peachpost.

If you ever watch Total Training's DVD tutorials on Illustrator, Deke MacClelland has some really awe-inspirining tutorials on making symetrical patterns. With Deke, it's not the product of the tutorial, but the way he does it that makes you so happy you watched.

However, this being an asymetrical pattern, those techniques aren't what you're looking for. The tilde key is your answer.

[kerrysmagicshirt]

Peach post the patterns you are looking to create is one of those curves made from straight line tricks of the eye - we did this as a kid. Try this on paper first - draw an x and y axis like you where going to draw a graph - 10cm x 10cm - mark each cm increment. draw a sraignt line from 10cm on the y axis to 1 cm on the x, draw a line from 9 cm on y to 2cm on x, a line from 8cm on y to 3 cm on x - see the pattern - keep going till it's finished. This is what they have done. In illusrator draw a horizontal guide only - draw a vertical line copy and paste it many time - rotating each copy by a few degrees - the next one by a few degrees more, and so on. to get the effect they have - you need to add layers with different colour versions, sizes, flip and rotate it etc. hope i've been clear - let me know how you get on.

[Broacher]

Another approach is to simply make a group of regularly spaced lines, with a bounding rectangle and apply a Distortion Grid or use the Tob Object approach and get in their with the point edit tool. You can easily curve, flip right over (like a wave) anything with distortion tools (even rasters!)-- they're lots of fun.

[Mynock]

Is that how you would do it in Draw?

[Broacher]

Well, yeah... you could use freeform envelope distortion on such a group in CDraw. Or the blend along the path stuff. Depends on what you're after. I DO admit that I wish Corel could apply envelope distortions to rasters like AI. One point Adobe. Maybe next version.

[LeftBrain Artist]

OK, here's my way of doing it. Uses pretty much everything else already mentioned here.

Make a 5" straight vertical line (x axis). Do a Transform each, set move horizontal + .125", rotate to 5º and hit Copy. Do this 17 more times (using command D) to bring the series of lines to the y-axis. Select all the lines and use the Divide filter - stroke goes away so give it color again. Use Free Distort, then Expand Appearance to alter the curvature/angle. Easy cheese.

[Logo-Mechanix]

It's a Jedi mind trick. They look curved but they are actually straight. I used to draw these on paper by the boat load when I was a kid. Wow did this bring back memories especially the spirograph lol.

[LeftBrain Artist]

It's a Jedi mind trick. They look curved but they are actually straight. I used to draw these on paper by the boat load when I was a kid.

Me too.

[Logo-Mechanix]

I think I will go home tonight and draw one just to be nostalgic.

[david2022]

You use the blending tool in Illustrator. Take the line "segment tool" and draw out a line, then draw out another line. Double click on the blend tool in Illy and from the drop down menu choose Specified Steps. I choose about 20. Then click on one line segment then click the other line segment and you will see some amazing results.
You can also add anchor points on the original line segments with your Add Anchor Point Tool then use your Direct Selection Tool or the Convert Tool to move the points around to get the desired effect.
I have some examples of this technique in my video tutorials at

http://worldcuptraining.com

Good Luck,

david2022

[baglieja]

Draw two lines in Illustrator and then use the blend tool (with 10-20 steps between) to connect them. Presto!

[xposed]

Hi, there is a PS plugin you can use from Dragonfly called Sinedots. You wll have to play with it for a lil while to get the hang of it. Look for it on Google. Its free I think?.?.? Hope this helped.