this looks like something for me, thanks for sharing it he4rty!

Reminds me of when we were trying to make quilts in GIMP. Very nice, he4rty.

this was just as fun as it looked! i didn't follow the original procedure very long, though, i just had to try what happened if i altered this or that. so my first pattern is what happened when i blended from three points instead of eight, making a triangular pattern, then following the tutorial until "map - make seamless" (i tried that step but it destroyed my triangle), which i replaced with "map - small tiles". the second pattern is what happened when i pinched the first. inspiring tutorials, he4rty!

Anmal those are nice, what gradient did you use because the colours are lovely.

I didn't follow the tutorial but Gimp's coffee stain filter came in useful for something.

Erisian that is a very creepy image, it needs a semi transparent floating skull in it somewhere.

Shows how different peoples perceptions are. I wouldn't have thought of it as creepy myself.

he4rty: thank ya . i used my own gradient, made with the palette-to-gradient tool. i'll post it if you like, but you'll probably make it yourself much quicker.

erisian: that's a very creative use of something that i've always thought of as pretty useless- hmm... creepy yes, but not in the floating skulls-sense, more in the creepy-crawlies-hiding-in-the-corners-sense. i think some of photo comix cockroaches could live happily in that pattern, brrr.

Just one of those days of wanting to play on gimp but no idea what to create, so abstract patterns come in handy.

very nice. I love the blue and white in that top one.

lovely patterns, he4rty! i like the bottom right one - using both twirled and untwirled pattern units makes a nice effect, i like doing that myself

getting closer I think!!

I discovered this tutorial and thought I would bring it to the attention of anyone who hasn't seen it. The first one is the straight tut. The others are variations.

I was referred to these tutorials by Issabella, so I must thank her for that. How people come up with these inventive techniques I will never know; buit all GC members benefit from such educational threads.

In fact to me that is the essence of the GC Forum, a community all prepared to learn themselves and to assist other in learning too.

So my 'he4rty felt thanks' (yes a silly pun) to He4rty for this one, so imaginative and here is one of my morning's outcomes that I have turned into a number of tiled patterns and other things in other threads ...

Very nice, OMG.

Great OMG! I am thankful to he4rty too for such a useful way to get such nice results.