Compact spinners

A lot of the patterns I work on have a similar feel. Sometimes when I'm playing with the patterns, I have no idea if I'm recreating a pattern that I already have done. I guess that is one of the reasons that I like this blog--it gives me a record of many of the patterns that I have liked for one reason or an other. I looked through my blog and found this one called shurikens which is similar.

There are three types of spinners: two are mirror images of each other and the third is the one that has decorative triangles on it's inside (not part of a path). The polygon paths are comprised of hexagons, pentagons, and triangles. As you walk around the mirror image spinners, the pattern is hexagon, pentagon, triangle, then repeat. If you follow the pattern then you'll go clockwise around one spinner and counter clockwise around the other. The decorated spinner's pattern is more complicated: hexagon, pentagon, triangle, hexagon, triangle, pentagon, and then repeat. It's a fun pattern.

A simple pattern but still nice

Something about this one attracts my attention. Perhaps it has to do with my desire to have all blue squares surrounded by the same colour of triangles. There are two different types so I fail every time. Instead, if I focus my attention on the group of orange triangles and think of them as a distorted square and do the same for the green triangles then it's an easy to understand pattern. In fact, this would be similar to the Pythagorean tiling I posted a long time ago.  I'm not really sure why I see blinking lines in the picutre but the world is a crazy place.

The program that creates this pattern is very simple.

sq {
   sides 3
   paint orange
   sides 3
   paint green
   left
   sides 4
   ifon none {
     paint blue
     right 
     create sq
     2 right 
     create sq
   } { }
} 

Go Jessie!

Go Hoser Hoosier Jessie! I was playing around with SVG files and thought my niece might enjoy this. Maybe I should have put a soccer ball in the animation... Next time. I hope their winning streak continues.

Spinning Penrose gears

Let's see if this one works.