Step 4: Analysing the Pattern
As I construct the quilt, my sub-units are going to be four-patches, so I need to manipulate my pattern to come up with a printable copy with a grid overlaid. My tool of choice for this is gimp, but I imagine that any image editor can do the job.
Tip: To scale a pixelated image without artifacts, select "Interpolation: none"
Being lazy and obsessive is a bad combination. I wrote a python script to count up how many tiles of each kind I would need. Because I was too lazy to learn how to use a module that can read most image formats, I converted the image to ascii pbm format in order to read and manipulate it conveniently.
My chosen maze is 41x55 pixels; I need 65 each of the 3/1 units, and 410 2/2 units, plus some extra dark pairs for the edge.
Tip: To scale a pixelated image without artifacts, select "Interpolation: none"
Being lazy and obsessive is a bad combination. I wrote a python script to count up how many tiles of each kind I would need. Because I was too lazy to learn how to use a module that can read most image formats, I converted the image to ascii pbm format in order to read and manipulate it conveniently.
My chosen maze is 41x55 pixels; I need 65 each of the 3/1 units, and 410 2/2 units, plus some extra dark pairs for the edge.
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