| but first, open your
tile in MS Paint, drag on the page handle (lower right corner) and make
yourself a good size page. Select a smaller square from within your
tile, hold down the Ctrl key, and drag a copy off to the side (1).
Still holding the Ctrl key, release the mouse button then click again and
drag off another copy.
While the second copy is still selected, go to Image/Flip-Rotate,
select "Flip horizontal" and OK. Your selected copy is now a mirror
image of the first (2).
(3) Join the two images and you have a new tile, this
one being symetrical and much classier than the original. |
I
usually make another copy of the tile and dragging/pasting copies, pile
them up three or four high and wide, experimenting to see if I really like
the patterns. If I don't, I select a different part and copy-flip-join
until I see True Beauty. The problems come because of the
infinite possibilities. One begins to see more and more cool
shapes as one makes more and more changes and adjustments, and soon one
begins to loose more and more of one's self in the tile vortex (or something).
Some uptight individuals are going to be crying about
how all this has no socially redeeming value, but where else could you
feed a faded politician or former world leader into the hopper and get
a work of art out the other end?
Take Bob Dole for instance... |