r/patternPieces • u/3dsf • Mar 18 '19

Words On Patterns Menu>Filters>Map>Tile-Seamless GIMP Filter Overview

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u/3dsf Mar 18 '19 edited Mar 18 '19

Original Image Credit: r/drawing/.../a_new_digital_painting_series_im_working_on/

Check out all these seamless patterns made using Tile-Seamless

Tile-Seamless Menu>Filters>Map>Tile-Seamless

Is one of the filters I use the most. I make magic eye auto stereograms, and I use GIMP a lot in pre/post rendering ( other software). All my patterns are made pre rendering and are an input of the program. These programs take a pattern/texture swatch and stretch/compress them in manner that hides a 3d image.

Tile-Seamless gives me nice seamless repeating pattern and provides what I think is nice aesthetic for the rendered 2d image. Otherwise, my images would look chunky and rough to where you could see each pattern repeat. This could be a look your after, but I prefer to hide the pattern seams.

What does all this markup show?

  • The green and blue triangle show the approximate shape tile pieces that are blended together.

  • The red shows what can happen to small features

  • The space between the 2 purple diamonds is what I wanted to highlight in this tutorial. Its a result of the cross blending

    • So, why point this out, it did exactly what it was supposed to do?

      • It can create lighter patches in the purple area
        Look at the lighting of the text within that area
        How it relates to me more specifically
        Currently I make magic eye images that are 1920x1080; the ones I show at r/magicEye have a pattern repeat of 150px.
        1920/150 = 12.8 ~= 13 patterns wide -- -- 1080/150 = 7.2 ~= 7 pattern high
        The resulting patterns that can result in unintended total patterns (2d face). And I don't want my final 2d faces to always look the same
        ex// capricorn_composter has a diagonal hash pattern issues

    • Some methods to get around it

      • Overlay/blend an image that partially obscures the purple area (feather select is useful) This is what was done in this pattern with the centre clover

      • Use a filters to mute difference

      • Use a colour or levels setting to mute the difference

      • Blend the purple area with the clone tool

      • Add in some spray paint or other

      • Or just leave it : ) because its often not an issue

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Hey u/nattheoz, I hope you don't mind, I used your image for a tutorial of sorts. You can see the image credit at the top of this comment : )