![]() ![]() You’re going to have to get to know and love the Snapping Toolbar, shown at right. You may also have to install XQuartz on your Mac for it to run. On Mac, it’s a little slow and uses some non- (Mac-)standard keyboard shortcuts. Some Linux distributions provide a really old version, so make sure you’re using at least version 0.91. It’s important to get the most recent stable version of Inkscape. This is covered well on the Inkscape website, so I won’t repeat it here. In this article, I hope to show you some techniques you can build on for making your own patterns. Just one of the features I use quite often ( creating a circle from a centre point and a point on the circumference in other words, emulating a compass) isn’t built in, but can be done with a simple sequence of operations. Thankfully, the free drawing packing Inkscape has almost all of the features I need. CAD packages also don’t tend to have many artistic functions. ![]() Most of the operations (including drawing from one intersection to another, rotating objects around a point, buffering lines into polygons) can be done by CAD packages, but these often have a steep learning curve. Consequently, I looked around for a good, free tool that people could use to start making these drawings. Not being that great with manual dexterity, I’ve found these much slower to draw than I could on a computer. ![]() I’ve been following Eric Broug‘s methods of construction that use a ruler and compass exclusively. “ A close up of by Usman Ghani” by Usman.pg – Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Here’s an example of the larger patterns in context: When I refer to Islamic Geometric Design, I’m more talking about the frameworks, repeat units or grids that are the starting point for the intricate and hypnotic abstract designs that have traditionally been used in Islamic architecture for over a thousand years. Clues include posts like this, this, also this, and maybe even this. You might have noticed that I’ve become a bit obsessed with Arabic/Islamic geometric designs lately. ![]()
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