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bethanyc22183490
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May 3, 2024
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How did I make this?! Radiating triangle sphere shape

  • May 3, 2024
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Hello! I can't for the life of me figure out how I made this design a while ago. Can anyone help me work backwards?

 

I'm pretty sure I made it from radiating circles with just a stroke and no fill, using either transform or rotate/copy and Ctrl+D. 

 

I can't figure out how I got the lines to cross uniformly like this to make the triangle shapes but I believe once I got the lines set up, I joined them all and then it let me select different rows of them easily so I could fill with alternating colors.

 

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Ton Frederiks
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Community Expert
May 4, 2024

With some work, I got this.

Will describe later this evening (if I have more time) how I got this result.

Monika Gause
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May 4, 2024

Looking at that - right. Pattern brush would be the easiest.

From this kind of element

bethanyc22183490
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May 4, 2024

This is a cool alternative! 

femkeblanco
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May 3, 2024

The spirograph part can be created with a simple script. 

Select a circle (the count can be changed in the first line):

var count = 25;
var doc = app.activeDocument;
var source = doc.selection[0];
var r = source.width / 2;
var first = doc.pathItems.ellipse(source.top - r / 2, source.left, r, r);
first.stroked = true;
first.filled = false;
for (var i = 0; i < count; i++) {
    var duple = first.duplicate();
    duple.rotate(360 / count * (i + 1), undefined, undefined, undefined, undefined, 
        Transformation.RIGHT);
}

I can't find a formula for the concentric circles. 

Monika Gause
Community Expert
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May 3, 2024

You need a circle and a curve. Then duplicate/rotate around the center and then mirror and duplicate.

Then use Live paint to fill this:

bethanyc22183490
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May 4, 2024

Thanks! I have got to this point but I am missing how to make the lines that create the triangles aside from manually creating circles from the center.

Monika Gause
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 4, 2024

You would use Live paint or shapebuilder afterwards, but using a brush would be much more efficient