I finally figured out where I found this pattern (I actually had one in one of my GURM folders) its called Truchet, and I found mine from Filter Forge a few years ago. Just thought I would add that here. So, anyone wanting to find a wealth of these patterns, just type in Truchet patterns in the search engine and you'll get plenty of examples/patterns to choose from.

Also, there is a pretty cool little java applet you can play with using quadratic real numbers or rational number parameters. You can find that here:

http://wphooper.com/visual/truchet_dynamics/

thank you Mahn, that's good to know.

Gimp has this pattern in the create>patterns menu
File/Create /Patterns/3-D Truchet

Had no idea Rod; cool. Now I can delete ofnuts brush. lol

THAT'S IT! Thank you so much - I knew it wasn't a brush...

Just got inspired to do this. lol

I still prefer to keep your method, Lyle, because I found this:

http://www.digitalartform.com/archives/ ... ze_in.html

And made a new set that gets random patterns each time you stroke the path.



If you want solid color lines on the 3D Truchet that Rod pointed out, just make start and end colors the same color.

Thanks for that link Mahvin. Definitely some cool stuff there.

Thanks for the cool patterns!!

Your result gave me a smile Tux. lol

Anyway, again thanks for that new info and link Mahvin. Created a pattern (bi-color random noise since I only needed 2) and used the truchet pattern creator to create a single tile and then created a fill and also a horizontal and masked the top layer to create resulting seamless texture and of course made another sphere too.

edit: changed patern to a cleaner one.

Thanks lyle. I'm getting some cool results using these patterns with the Logo Workshop.

You're killing me Lyle. You know how much I like metal stuff. You do that sphere in mathmap?

Yes; mathmap>distort>sphere. The best sphere maker that I've run across. To create the back, I used Simple's Diamond filter (ran twice) as a lower layer to the one on top (needs to be perfectly square by the way) and then darkened the base layer some before merging the layers then created the sphere.

OK Drac; did this one for you since you like metal things so much. lol

We all had way too much fun with a cool program called Sculpture Generator which I used to create this one (along with a hint of sparkle).

Generated by Sculpture Generator 1 by Carlo H. Séquin, UC Berkeley (and some additional tlc using GIMP).

Late to the game again on this one. I had written a script to shuffle tiles that would probably be of use here: http://silent9.com/incoming/sc ... huffle.scm

If you make a tile like this (though with a bit more care than I used) or one with more cell options like on the previously linked site:


and use it to fill an image that is a multiple of the cell size (100x100 in this case) then run the script you will end up with something like this:


Just a warning that it can be slow on a large image or small tile sizes!

-Rob A>

Doesn't appear to do anything Rob; when I run it, I just get the same tile no matter what size I put in the x and y paramters.

Here is a tile based on http://www.digitalartform.com/archives/ ... ze_in.html


and a shuffle of that:


-Rob A>

What version gimp?

Just have a layer active with NO selection. The script will slice up and shuffle the layer.

-Rob A>

Use GIMP 2.6.11 Rob. Here are some results that I get (before/after)

Gradient (appears to work):



After:



Your original sample (don't work):

Before and after identical:

OK; changed the layer dimension from 200X100 to 100X100 and got the desired result