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Oh there are some more beauties here. Thanks Jack. What a find.
I think I'll have a go at piecing a couple of them; but then I think I might set about a project of several of them - done with English Paper Piecing. I know there's no challenge then; but I have some lovely ombre fabric that would look gorgeous with these. Would that be OK with you Jack? I wouldn't be making them into a book!!!! Tomorrow I will make a point of checking out Kali tiling. In message , Jack Campin - bogus address writes I see it as a bunch of four-pointed stars with lozenges filling in the spaces between them. But those lattice patterns can always be seen in lots of different ways. Have a few more - all of them made out of simple block shapes but not lined up in obvious ways, with no seams running right across: http://www.campin.me.uk/Pix/KaliHexTriangles.gif http://www.campin.me.uk/Pix/KaliBorderedTriangles.gif http://www.campin.me.uk/Pix/KaliHexPinwheels.gif http://www.campin.me.uk/Pix/KaliBorderedOctagons.gif http://www.campin.me.uk/Pix/KaliOverlapDiamonds.gif http://www.campin.me.uk/Pix/KaliBandedDiamonds.gif http://www.campin.me.uk/Pix/Kali2Diamonds.gif Some of the patterns you can get look like they might be useful as qulting patterns rather than for patching: http://www.campin.me.uk/Pix/KaliHexMeander.gif http://www.campin.me.uk/Pix/KaliSawtoothQuilting.gif ==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === http://www.campin.me.uk ==== Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts -- Best Regards pat on the hill |
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geometric pattern generator for old Macs
[ tilings generated with the Kali program on an ancient Mac ]
Oh there are some more beauties here. Thanks Jack. What a find. I think I'll have a go at piecing a couple of them; but then I think I might set about a project of several of them - done with English Paper Piecing. I know there's no challenge then; but I have some lovely ombre fabric that would look gorgeous with these. Would that be OK with you Jack? Of course, go for it. Each one only took me a couple of minutes of mousing. Our version of the Kali2Squares.gif pattern should be done shortly and I'll post a photo (it's pieced, not bordered yet). I deliberately designed it to make the underlying structure almost impossible to work out at first sight. There obviously *is* a structure, but somebody used to normal block settings wouldn't immediately see the trick. BTW, I got the idea for that quilt from a book - Grunbaum and Shepherd, "Tilings and Patterns". All kinds of wonderful stuff in it, and you don't need to read mathematics to see a lot of what's going on. Probably very expensive now (it wasn't exactly cheap when I bought it) - buying an old Mac just to run Kali would almost certainly be cheaper. ==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === http://www.campin.me.uk ==== Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts |
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geometric pattern generator for old Macs
Great! Thanks Jack. It will take a while; but it will be fun. I love
it when the construction is hidden. .. In message , Jack Campin - bogus address writes Of course, go for it. Each one only took me a couple of minutes of mousing. Our version of the Kali2Squares.gif pattern should be done shortly and I'll post a photo (it's pieced, not bordered yet). I deliberately designed it to make the underlying structure almost impossible to work out at first sight. There obviously *is* a structure, but somebody used to normal block settings wouldn't immediately see the trick. BTW, I got the idea for that quilt from a book - Grunbaum and Shepherd, "Tilings and Patterns". All kinds of wonderful stuff in it, and you don't need to read mathematics to see a lot of what's going on. Probably very expensive now (it wasn't exactly cheap when I bought it) - buying an old Mac just to run Kali would almost certainly be cheaper. ==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === http://www.campin.me.uk ==== Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts -- Best Regards pat on the hill |
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geometric pattern generator for old Macs
The Kali4Star would actually be very possible -it's just square units
and rectangle units. Roberta in D, feeling tempted On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:24:41 +0000, Jack Campin - bogus address wrote: While looking for something else entirely, I came across the "Kali" tiling pattern generator for Classic MacOS. It creates patterns based on the 17 different plane symmetry groups. Within about five minutes of initial tinkering with it I came up with this: http://www.campin.me.uk/Pix/KaliHex.gif which looks like it ought to have potential as a quilt design, albeit not that easy to machine-piece. Ooh! that's beautiful Jack. I'd love to have a go at it. May I try? Show us a picture when you're done? We're just finishing off a version of this, which I described a while ago. Not as straightforward as it looks: http://www.campin.me.uk/Pix/Kali2Squares.gif This looks doable if a bit weird: http://www.campin.me.uk/Pix/KaliParallelograms.gif But you can easily generate designs that look neat but would be insanely difficult to put together: http://www.campin.me.uk/Pix/Kali4Star.gif http://www.campin.me.uk/Pix/KaliOverlapSquares.gif ==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === http://www.campin.me.uk ==== Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts |
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It's you and I back to the floors, Roberta!!
They are appealing aren't they. .. In message , Roberta writes The Kali4Star would actually be very possible -it's just square units and rectangle units. Roberta in D, feeling tempted -- Best Regards pat on the hill |
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geometric pattern generator for old Macs
I have always thought of snowballs as melons- a melon patch block? Don't
really recall where I got that name. So we saw the same thing. I had to look hard to see the kites and diamonds, but then found them. Yep, it's cool how different things jump out at us! Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. "Patti" wrote in message ... First of all I saw it as a star with kite shapes in between each pair of points and diamonds at the sides! Then I could see a snowballed square with pieced rectangles set along the sides sewn with a partial seam. I can't see a melon at all g . In message , Leslie& The Furbabies in MO. writes Wah! I can't make myself see it any other way. The melons just keep jumping out at me. Pat, can you explain what you see? Please? Having studied your book I'm curious how your clever mathematically inclined mind sees it. ;-) Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. -- Best Regards pat on the hill |
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geometric pattern generator for old Macs
LOL, I'm with you Patti. Can't see a melon at all (but then, to me,
melons are curved, not straight lines.G) This one really doesn't seem to be all that difficult to piece, just time consuming, depending on the size you make. The hex example also looks very do-able. G Friendship Ring is very similar to Jack's Chain. VBG The major difference is substituting nine-patch blocks for squares of fabric. G This would be an interesting pattern to vary with different small blocks in the squares. hmmmmmmmmmm... wonder if there is a way to show some "transparency" here?? Something to play with. G have fun, Pati, in Phx On Jan 30, 2:01*pm, Patti wrote: First of all I saw it as a star with kite shapes in between each pair of points and diamonds at the sides! Then I could see a snowballed square with pieced rectangles set along the sides sewn with a partial seam. I can't see a melon at all |
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geometric pattern generator for old Macs
Just did a fast google search on "Kali tiling" and got a site with a
downloadable program for them. Available for both Mac and Windows. G And in several languages. Neat, and I see some more time sink here. VBG Pati, in Phx On Jan 30, 3:40*pm, Jack Campin - bogus address wrote: [ tilings generated with the Kali program on an ancient Mac ] Oh there are some more beauties here. *Thanks Jack. *What a find. I think I'll have a go at piecing a couple of them; but then I think I might set about a project of several of them - done with English Paper Piecing. *I know there's no challenge then; but I have some lovely ombre fabric that would look gorgeous with these. Would that be OK with you Jack? Of course, go for it. *Each one only took me a couple of minutes of mousing. *Our version of the Kali2Squares.gif pattern should be done shortly and I'll post a photo (it's pieced, not bordered yet). *I deliberately designed it to make the underlying structure almost impossible to work out at first sight. *There obviously *is* a structure, but somebody used to normal block settings wouldn't immediately see the trick. BTW, I got the idea for that quilt from a book - Grunbaum and Shepherd, "Tilings and Patterns". *All kinds of wonderful stuff in it, and you don't need to read mathematics to see a lot of what's going on. Probably very expensive now (it wasn't exactly cheap when I bought it) - buying an old Mac just to run Kali would almost certainly be cheaper. ==== j a c k *at *c a m p i n . m e . u k *=== *http://www.campin.me.uk ==== Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: *Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts |
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geometric pattern generator for old Macs
Just did a fast google search on "Kali tiling" and got a site with a
downloadable program for them. Available for both Mac and Windows. G And in several languages. Neat, and I see some more time sink here. VBG But not, as far as I can tell, for MacOS X. Did you find one for that? ==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === http://www.campin.me.uk ==== Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts |
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