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Weird Tiling Workflow 1: Things Inside Tilings

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Tiles are awesome but totally underused, maybe because the maths requirements to create them.
But now that we have IFStile, things are way easier ^^

Here, I document my workflow. This is not a tutorial.


Getting the tiling ready to work


Of course, you can make a tiling from scratch, but i am lazy and I just grab something from IFStile (ifstile.com/).

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This one looks nice (after a lot of searching and pondering). So I´ll just export it to Apo.

Observe that this tile is made of 2 different shapes (overall 7 transforms). Fun stuff to play with :dummy:

At this stage, i try coloring it - if not the final version, something close to it. Once I get tons of weird stuff and xaos, the efficiency will drop a lot, making it hard to visualize, which will make coloring pretty painful.

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Another important step is to visualize the xaos structure of your future work. Sometimes, i keep it in my head, but sometimes I actually need to draw it.

So the idea here is:

1. Crop a hole in the tiling
2. Put the cropped part into some framework (i´m thinking flux here)
3. Then, fill the hole in the tiling with the framework shaped to fill it.

Untitled Drawing by tatasz



Actual satanic magic


Now that I have the tile and the plan, time to work.

The first step is to smartcrop a hole in one of the tiles. To position the hole, i move the transform and the post transform in opposite directions: post transform moves the hole, and the regular transform cancels the changed shift.

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Now, i need something from the tile to feed into flux. Since the tiling shape is pretty irregular, what I will do is to duplicate the crop, and then invert it, then I will have a circle, nice and ready to use.

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At this point, the things I will do will break the tile. Its kinda annoying because harder to track if everything will work fine or something is broken beyond repair.

Here, I tweaked a bit the crop, for a bigger piece of the tile to go into it. Then, I reset the final transform and use it to scale it back to a unit circle:

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Yep, now it looks like crap =D

The next step is to apply curl to map it to a halfplane. For more details, you can check the double bubble tutorial by piethein21, for example.

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Now I can add flux. Since lazy, I just duplicate the curl transform and change xaos to take points from curl and from itself only.

For now, I will not tweak the flux since the visibility is meh =D

Flux by tatasz


Next step: I add a container transform which contains the flux, and goes into the tile.

Since I want something round, I start with a sineblur, since its easier to visualize and tweak. I also scale and position it to fit the crophole:


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Notice that I messed up some xaos in there, missing one of the transforms.

:la: Here we go, fixed.

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Now, I can replace the sineblur with a hemisphere, and then tweak both hemisphere and flux to get a nice picture.

I also switch the visibility to flux because its cooler and add a final transform.

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dark-beam's avatar
The hardest tutorial ever :lmao: