Tuesday 30 June 2020

Two Rings, One Pattern


I made the rings on day one and added the rest on the following day.
Put a lot of trends, i've seen on the YT channels im subscribed to, into the piece (cyberpunk neon-colours, white text in a clean modern font, glitch effects, echo-text and vertical typography), while keeping a minimalistic look that follows a grid layout.
After a lot of editing and refining, i also made a melting version you can see here. This one was really tough to get right. The smaller pattern on the upper ring changed the colours visually too much, so i made both patternfills the same size.
I also wanted to integrate the melting effect into the rings, without overdoing it and getting the balance right, required a lot of attempts.

For the original, look below.


Some of the lines might look a little blurry. I think its because the paths are not snapping to the pixelgrid, but as far as im aware, theres nothing i can do. I tried the pixel snap Extension and snapping to guides that i edited to full values without decimals, but it did not get better.

Everything except the Turing Pattern was made in Inkscape. I used samj's Turing plug-in and traced it in Inkscape. The acid rain was added with the G'MIC Pixel Sort filter.

For a third edit, i remade the text and deco elements in Affinity Designer and i think it looks a bit less blurry, thanks to an enforced pixelsnap option build into the program.

Currently the Turing Pattern effect is making rounds all over the internet, so now you can get a free download of 13 different patterns from Spoongraphics.

Original Version

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