Design Something Every Day – Day 13

This evening I’ve been playing with Illustrator’s rotate tool. Now, today’s effort is once again a bit on the poor side. However this time it’s down to time rather than being able to do what I want with it. Although the below image isn’t all the interesting the examples I played with does give me a good base for something a bit more exciting in future. I might take another look at this tomorrow and see if I can make a proper display of some kind.

Technique shown here.

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Posted: January 13th 2010 at 23:42

Jan 13

Alma

January 14 2010 00:07

Wao! Really like this! How did you do them? They remind me of Spirographs!

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- John Robinson
  
  January 14 2010 08:19
  
  Thanks Alma! They’re quite easy to make actually. You draw 1 starter shape and use Illustrator’s Rotate tool to make a slightly rotated copy. Then repeat! I forgot to mention the tutorial I got this technique from – I’ve added that into the post now.
  
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  - Alma
    
    January 14 2010 13:40
    
    Thanks for posting that link! I think I will give it a try! :-)
    
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sigurdur Armannsson

January 31 2010 22:07

If you want to be sure it adds up, that is, the last copy ends at the first one, you can put the degrees into the input fields like: 360/31. Hit the tab to see what it calculated and then hit the Copy button. Then just hold down Cmd+D while it duplicates.
sigurdur Armannsson´s most recent blog ..How to make a circle color spectrum in Illustrator

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- John Robinson
  
  January 31 2010 23:05
  
  Thanks for the tip! That’s a lot easier and more precise than alt+dragging to the position you want.
  
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