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<\/p>\nPattern One: Beetles<\/p>\n
For this first pattern I took a little bit of liberty with the animal\u00a0 prompt. Beetles are insects, but I figured the prompt is mostly there for inspiration. I photographed a display case full of preserved beetles\/bugs at this museum in Seattle, the photo on it’s own is rather cool. I cut out six of the beetles and the scorpion from the image, and arranged them in a circular form. Then I patterned them, with the orientation rotating, over a background I drew. I used a paintbrush with texture, which makes the background appear almost sandy. And in addition I drew up some thorny branches to add some more substance.<\/p>\n
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Tiling the Pattern:<\/p>\n
The tiling of this pattern wasn’t as seamless as I had hoped, the beetles were difficult to have line up properly. However, I think it still remains interesting and with a clear motif, even if it could use a little more work.![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/ar1101-c18\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/01\/BugPrintFour-1-740x740.jpg\")
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Pattern Two: Rayon<\/p>\n
For my second pattern I chose to take inspiration from the synthetic. I immediately thought of synthetic fibers, and remembered how awesome they look under a microscope. I sampled this image of rayon under a microscope\u00a0 for online. I patterned the image using the cross weave option with overlapping pixels and I added in color and brightness randomization. This resulted in this almost patchwork like print of the original photo, in varying colors and brightness. I then deleted sections from the print and placed a white to teal gradient behind the deleted sections. The final result takes this very smooth synthetic and contrasts it against a very geometric pattern.![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/ar1101-c18\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/01\/Synthetic.jpg\")
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Tiling the pattern:<\/p>\n
I was pretty satisfied with how this pattern tiled, I rotated the original pattern so the center cut outs of white lined up and an overall geometric pattern appeared.![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/ar1101-c18\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/01\/Synthetic-4-tile-740x740.jpg\")
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Pattern One: Beetles For this first pattern I took a little bit of liberty with the animal\u00a0 prompt. Beetles are insects, but I figured the prompt is mostly there for inspiration. I photographed a display case full of preserved beetles\/bugs at this museum in Seattle, the photo on it’s own is rather cool. I cut … <\/p>\n