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The Connected Pattern Maker Example
You can create this pattern of a classic car in 30 to 60 minutes using the Connected Pattern Maker.
No drawing skills or special equipment is required.
Step 1 Start with a digital image. In this example a photograph of a
classic car was scanned with a flat bed scanner and saved as a .jpg. Click on the picture below to
view the image that was used to create the pattern.
©1998 Connected Lines
Step 2 By drawing directly over a digital picture you can
create realistic detail with absolutely no drawing skills. Lines, squares,
rectangles, arcs, circles are all easily drawn using a mouse.
Step 3 Zoom in on the picture to draw the details of the original image. The shaping
and editing tools let you modify the pattern to obtain refinement not thought possible using a mouse.
Step 4 When the pattern is complete, save it.
The Connected Pattern Maker stores patterns in Connected
Lines' PAT file format. This file format stores both the pattern and the
background picture in a single file that may be opened for future editing and
printing.
Step 5 Print the pattern on an inkjet or laser printer, or save
the pattern as a bitmap image. When printing and making bitmaps, you can set the pattern
size and line thickness. When printing a pattern larger than a single page, the Connected Pattern
Maker prints the pattern on multiple pages, which may be taped or pasted together.
You have the option of printing cut lines on each page to assist in assembling the pattern.
The Finished Product The 1 inch,
6 inch, and 12 inch
examples of the classic car were created by saving the pattern as a
bitmap image. The bitmaps were then converted to GIF file format with a
graphics editor for publishing on the web.
The example below is the pattern printed 4 feet wide by 3 feet high. The
complete pattern printed on 28 pages of standard-sized paper with a 3/4 inch margin.
The page margin was removed from each page following the cut lines made by the
Connected Pattern Maker. The final 28 pages are 7 inches wide and 9.6 inches
high and may be taped together to create a finished 4x3 foot pattern. In order
to publish the 28 pattern segments on the web, each page was scanned into a GIF
image file. You may view the individual pages by click on cells of the pattern
below.
Note: The cut lines for cropping the pattern are not visible in
the 28 graphic images above. Viewing and printing the images above with your
browser or graphic editor may not reproduce the images in their original 7 x 9.6
inch format. Use our demonstration version
of the Connected Pattern Maker to create your own example patterns in scale.
Note: The Connected Pattern Maker can print the same pattern to any size.
We have selected a 1 inch pattern, a 6 inch pattern,
a 12 inch pattern, and a 4 foot pattern above to show examples of the endless possibilities. Click here to learn more
about creating patterns in different sizes.
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