Revisited the existing effect which was inspired by the water reflections in Blade Runner (both Tyrell and Wallace Corp. offices) and added a Nobu Design pattern, which is kind of similar to the Ennis House tiles.
Still work in progress, i think.
At first i tried to make the pattern in Inkscape with the tiled clones dialogue, only to find out that all the edges had partial transparency, which made it look blurry.
This was because i used a strokewidth with decimal values. Obviously this can only be represented as a fake half pixel (aka transparency), because there is no such thing as half a pixel.
So the problem with this pattern is that you can only use even numbers for the strokewidth (2,4,6, etc.) if you want crisp lines and some of them are too big for the effect i wanted.
I had hoped this would be a simple one-click effect (minus setting up the tiled clones values), with the option to export at whatever resolution i needed but in the end it was much easier to build with the Rectangle Tool in Gimp.
Next problem was how to make it distribute evenly, so it lines up with the imagesize of the center element.
I solved this by scaling the pattern to fit, which means its slightly deformed but you dont notice because its so subtle.
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