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Old January 30th 09, 01:28 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
Jack Campin - bogus address
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Default geometric pattern generator for old Macs

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.

I couldn't get Kali to run on the Classic environment on MacOS X.

The software (along with other things that run on other and more
modern operating systems) is at

http://www.geometrygames.org

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Old January 30th 09, 03:35 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
Patti
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Default geometric pattern generator for old Macs

Ooh! that's beautiful Jack. I'd love to have a go at it.
May I try?
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In message , Jack Campin
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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.

I couldn't get Kali to run on the Classic environment on MacOS X.

The software (along with other things that run on other and more
modern operating systems) is at

http://www.geometrygames.org

==== 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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Old January 30th 09, 04:31 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
Roberta[_3_]
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Default geometric pattern generator for old Macs

Cool! Have a look at this, so appropriately named:
http://lovetocrochetandknit.blogspot...ain-quilt.html
Roberta in D

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Old January 30th 09, 06:19 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
Patti
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Default geometric pattern generator for old Macs

Kali4Star looks to me to be easiest to put together!

Everything is relative of course!! Perhaps I could try that one too?

If I manage to get anything sensible done, I'll post pictures. I'll
just finish the baby quilt I'm doing, then have a go.

Thank for the interesting drawings Jack.
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In message , Jack Campin
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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 ====
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CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts


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Old January 30th 09, 07:47 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
Leslie& The Furbabies in MO.
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Default geometric pattern generator for old Macs

This is a melon with a strip pieced rectangle on the sides. Not too bad
other than matching the seams at the angles... and some partial seams.

http://www.campin.me.uk/Pix/Kali4Star.gif

Not my kind of project, tho. Whew!

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

"Jack Campin - bogus address" wrote in message
...
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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Old January 30th 09, 08:07 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
Patti
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Default geometric pattern generator for old Macs

How extremely interesting! I didn't see it that way at all.
Isn't it wonderful how differently people see things. Fascinating!
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In message , Leslie& The Furbabies in
MO. writes
This is a melon with a strip pieced rectangle on the sides. Not too
bad other than matching the seams at the angles... and some partial
seams.

http://www.campin.me.uk/Pix/Kali4Star.gif

Not my kind of project, tho. Whew!

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

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pat on the hill
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Old January 30th 09, 08:27 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
Leslie& The Furbabies in MO.
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Default geometric pattern generator for old Macs

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.

"Patti" wrote in message
...
How extremely interesting! I didn't see it that way at all.
Isn't it wonderful how differently people see things. Fascinating!
.
In message , Leslie& The Furbabies in
MO. writes
This is a melon with a strip pieced rectangle on the sides. Not too bad
other than matching the seams at the angles... and some partial seams.

http://www.campin.me.uk/Pix/Kali4Star.gif

Not my kind of project, tho. Whew!

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

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Best Regards
pat on the hill


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Old January 30th 09, 09:58 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
Julia in MN[_5_]
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Default geometric pattern generator for old Macs

That's very similar to the top that I bought at an auction and
hand-quilted. The top was pieced by hand, and many of the fabrics were
from feed sacks. It's toward the bottom he
http://webpages.charter.net/jaccola/default.html I called the pattern
"Friendship Chain" though I'm not sure where I got the name -- I'm sure
I did some looking through websites, etc. It's got several other names
in Barbara Brackman's book.

Julia in MN

Roberta wrote:
Cool! Have a look at this, so appropriately named:
http://lovetocrochetandknit.blogspot...ain-quilt.html
Roberta in D

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Old January 30th 09, 10:01 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
Patti
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Default geometric pattern generator for old Macs

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
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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.


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Old January 30th 09, 10:17 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
Jack Campin - bogus address
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Default geometric pattern generator for old Macs

http://www.campin.me.uk/Pix/Kali4Star.gif
This is a melon with a strip pieced rectangle on the sides.

How extremely interesting! I didn't see it that way at all.
Isn't it wonderful how differently people see things. Fascinating!

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. ;-)


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

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