I suspect you could create this by using tiled clones, with appropriate adjustments to scaling and rotation, but it's beyond my abilities to accomplish it.
@TylerDurden ... only just seen your post! Investigating this now... did you still have the same settings in Shift and Scale (with the additional settings in Color and Trace that your GIF shows)
@TylerDurden, I'm so close to replicating what you have (thank you!) - the only issue at the moment is that the clones aren't being replicated in the target color - they're still black. From the tooltip it states that the initial color only works if the original has "unset fill or stroke..." and I'm not at all sure what that refers to. My original is a simple black elipse with black fill (100% opacity) and no stroke style set at all. I appreciate I could select everything and just change their fill, but it's the little nuances like this that assist me in understanding where I went wrong, so would appreciate any feedback in this regard.
Unset is a button in the Fill/Stroke dialog (panel) along with flat. gradient, etc. The button looks like a question-mark. Assign the original with unset fill and you should be on your way.
I recently had to do this for the lettering in one of my comic strips:
The basic halftone was created using tiled clones over a gradient, as shown by TylerDurden above.
Rather than set a fixed colour, or unset the fill and pick it from the traced gradient, I simply created black dots. Then I used them to mask a solid background to get the colours. This approach meant that I could easily change the colour without having to re-create the clones each time. This made it easier to re-use the same basic halftone in multiple places, and allowed me to experiment with different effects - such as a gradient running across the dots, independently of the one used to create the halftone.
Beginners' Questions Trying to replicate a background
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I'm not too sure if there's a plugin that assists in this, but is anyone aware of a method of producing a background like this?
I suspect you could create this by using tiled clones, with appropriate adjustments to scaling and rotation, but it's beyond my abilities to accomplish it.
Yep, you can use tiled clones. It is a bit more advanced, using the trace tab to modify size based on a background image.
You can also modify an already made array of clones using the tweak tool, set to shrink selected objects.
@fred_dot_u - yes! Thank you - I couldn't remember where to find the Cloned tiles ...
I've created the initial pattern by:
Then I group everything together and rotate by 30 degrees. I'm definitely getting there.
However in the original, it appears that the red circles decrease in size and then get larger again ... any idea how that happens?
@TylerDurden ... only just seen your post! Investigating this now... did you still have the same settings in Shift and Scale (with the additional settings in Color and Trace that your GIF shows)
When I did the trace over the gradient, the clones were edge to edge, the gradient controlled the scale (<%100).
When I did the array of clones prior to the tweak tool, the circles had maybe ~10% spacing.
@TylerDurden, I'm so close to replicating what you have (thank you!) - the only issue at the moment is that the clones aren't being replicated in the target color - they're still black. From the tooltip it states that the initial color only works if the original has "unset fill or stroke..." and I'm not at all sure what that refers to. My original is a simple black elipse with black fill (100% opacity) and no stroke style set at all. I appreciate I could select everything and just change their fill, but it's the little nuances like this that assist me in understanding where I went wrong, so would appreciate any feedback in this regard.
Thank you sir.
Unset is a button in the Fill/Stroke dialog (panel) along with flat. gradient, etc. The button looks like a question-mark. Assign the original with unset fill and you should be on your way.
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Attributes-Fill-Stroke.html
I recently had to do this for the lettering in one of my comic strips:
The basic halftone was created using tiled clones over a gradient, as shown by TylerDurden above.
Rather than set a fixed colour, or unset the fill and pick it from the traced gradient, I simply created black dots. Then I used them to mask a solid background to get the colours. This approach meant that I could easily change the colour without having to re-create the clones each time. This made it easier to re-use the same basic halftone in multiple places, and allowed me to experiment with different effects - such as a gradient running across the dots, independently of the one used to create the halftone.
Nice!