The surprising possibilities of Stroke Stripes for pattern creation

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The surprising possibilities of Stroke Stripes for pattern creation.

As many may know i like to play with pattern creation and some day
i created that simple pattern in the post below. As I often play with Tools
and Features in VS in unusal ways, just thinking how may look that or that.

I decided to try Stroke Stripes with this Pattern and I got a surprising result
when I applied Stroke Stripes to the outlines of the shapes and combined them.

Which led to this pattern.

For all who are interest, i made this little tutorial here which shows steps
how to create something like that.

I dont know yet how many parts this Tutorial will have, but will post
the Links here.
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Part 1 - see next Post below
The Basic Steps

Part 2
Extend the possibilities

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Part 1 - Surprising possibilities of Stroke Stripes for pattern creation.

The Basic Steps

Create any kind of closed Shape.
For more interesting pattern apply a Offset Shape Effect on it.
( Menu > Effects > Outline > Offset Path )
Copy the result and keep the original in case you want
to edit something later on.

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Now apply a Stroke Stripe on that Pattern, i use a 14 point stroke width and Stripe 2 here.

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Copy/duplicate it rotate or move it a bit and combine it
and you have the steps to create such patterns

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Part 2 - Using Stroke Stripes for Pattern creation.

Extend the Possibilities

The basic steps mentioned above already offer some possibilities.
But VectorStyler has a feature that offers even more possibilities.
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These are Composite Shapes !
( Menu > Objects > Composite Shapes )

Composite Shapes are, in simple terms, editable booleans.
Combine is also as an option there but some additional boolean
options too. Not all of them are useful for Pattern creating,
the way we doing it here, but a few are nice to have.

The biggest advantage of using Composite Shapes, however, is that
you can move these shapes around. So you have a sort of live preview
while you do your pattern creation and you can see how your pattern
changes as you move shapes around or try out different composite modes.
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Here some Composite Boolean Modes.

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To move a Composite Shape, open the Transform flyout and
select the "Shape Tool". Then select a Composite Shape
an move it around.

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For a easy way to switch between Composite Modes do the following:
Open the Shape Panel
( Menu > Window > Shape Panel )

Now select your Design with the “Transform Tool”
and choose a Mode from the Pull down Menu

And a least a Tip:
Using copy and past ist not possible with Composite Shapes,
as this will break the Composite Mode.

Do the following instead:
Select your Composite Shape with the Shape Tool mentioned above.
Select "Duplicate"
( Menu > Edit > Duplicate )
and you have a duplicated Version of your Composite Shape
which stay in Composite Mode. The duplicated Composite
Shape may lay above your original so move the Composite Shape
with the "Shape Tool" a bit.

Thats all for that Part have fun and a nice day

[Devil Dinosaur]

Thanks a lot

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@Devil-Dinosaur said in The surprising possibilities of Stroke Stripes for pattern creation:

Thanks a lot

Thank you, really appreciated.

I like to mentioned that a big part goes to VectorStyler because
of its cool features which offers all of this.

[FastVector]

A gave it a shot. Thanks for the tutorial!

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@FastVector

thanks, your welcome

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Another nice result with this type of pattern creation
which work even on simple shapes. All you have to do
is apply an offset shape effect to it.

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And dont forget you could duplicate a composite Shape
use the Pattern above but duplicated the circle here which
leads to this pattern