I’ve been working on a series of designs for silhouette cutouts but I wanted something adaptable – that would fit any future products I might design. I started with a square with regular breaks – sections where the silhouette would be connected to the outside area.
I used two layers and Illustrator’s offset path tool to create a stacked effect that gives extra visual depth to the pattern, and gives me the option to use different materials or finishes on each layer.
I supplemented them with some of the leaf designs you may have seen in earlier posts. I haven’t quite figured out the tree shape design yet, but I’m getting good lights results from the leaves.
You can see that the lamp on the right stacks the cloud pattern on top of itself. I’m testing out the others in the light cube. The eventual idea is that I can use these patterns interchangeably in other designs, allowing people to order a whole line of products with the same design on them.
I love tessellated patterns and tiles.Thanks so much for sharing the files and demo. These are gorgeous.That is a very clever design trick to begin with the intersections and gaps and then just fill in as whimsy dictates.
I’ve been using a voronoi tessellation generation script to create stupidly complex text stencils for a book project, and I’m really looking forward to adapting it more generally towards projects like this. I like what you’ve done here and hopefully I will have something to contribute to the conversation once I have a glowforge in my hands
Voronoi patterns are SO much fun to work with…especially to bust out last-minute “interpretive diagrams” for desk crits back at school I don’t know how to work with them in other programs, but with the Grasshopper plugin for Rhino you can do all kinds of really great things with them!
I don’t know how to work with them in other programs, but with the Grasshopper plugin for Rhino you can do all kinds of really great things with them!