Drawing Polygons With Translate


You can do so many different designs with Draw at Image Magick and it just requires a little bit of math to make something out of the ordinary.

All you do is use Draw and click on polygon. Once those numbers are there, you don't touch them at all to do this project.



Step 1. Put on a background of 300x300. I like a color so when you matte out it's easier to see which you've done, so I use honeydew. Now cc&p these numbers in the coordinate box:
100,50 200,50 250,100 250,200 200,250 100,250 50,200 50,100 100,50
Color Fill NONE Stroke#796837 Stroke Width 2


Step 2. Now all you need to do is go to Draw again and using same numbers just go down to the Translate box and put in 20.0,0.0 (actually all you have to do is put a 2 in front of the first 0 - so it's moving it 20 pixels)

Step 3. Back to Draw same but this time use -20

Step 4. Go to Transform Rotate Right Now Draw and using exact steps again making the first one WITHOUT the translate number so don't forget to take it out to do this one again Then do the translate using the 20 one time and then -20 next time and you are done.

Now Matte out the parts you want to color and I used Dstover and Misc to put in the backgrounds or color them For the center you can composite a "gif" or matte out and comp a jpg using Dstover. I left the background honeydew but that too you can matte out and comp a background using Dstover Misc or just color it a different color than what I did.
Sample of steps to take:


Finished image:



Page 1 - Translate

Page 3 - Diamonds

ŠLee's Varieties
August 31, 2007