Irregular patterns

Hello and welcome!

You're on the right track using tile, pavement, or brick components It was just a matter of combing them that would result in specific patterns you were going for.

Example FFXML file shows you the basic idea. I don't know if that will solve all of your problems, but it seems like that's what you're looking for.

Basically I have two tile pavement or brick components. The first one creates the initial pattern, then the second one processes it by having the fill mode set to "jumble" which shuffles the image.

Hope this helps.

Random Walls.ffxml

Hi Skybase,
Thanks for that- that's plain simple, but I haven't thought about it! Instead I was creating a network of dozen or so nodes, offseting stuff and blending together etc...

Not sure if it solves ALL of my problems, but it definitely opens a door to a lot of new possibilities. I'll keep playing around anyway.

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BTW. another thing I thought is that it would be good to have is a hexagonal and radial patterns components. I know that these sort of patterns are possible with Kaleidoscope and some other transforms, but we don't have the same control. For example Kaleidoscope eliminates all the variety we get with all the tiles and bricks. And the radial transforms are always a bit cumbersome and sometimes destructive to the part of the image.

Anyway - so far there's still some stuff for me to discover. Going back to FF now...