Archimedean Spirals 1818 Responses

Last post: 2 years, 1 month ago | Thread started: Dec 23, 09, 4:05 a.m.

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• shapeaspect

  How does one create these in illustrator? My brain can't get around it.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc…

  Dec 23, 09, 4:05 a.m. – Permalink

• shitehawke

  http://www.layersmagazine.com/il…

  

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  Dog-earDec 23, 09, 4:06 a.m. – Permalink

• shapeaspect

  Thanks, but that's not really what I'm looking to do. You can get it close with the spiral tool but not quite right.

  

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  Dog-earDec 23, 09, 4:08 a.m. – Permalink

• shitehawke

  a script might produce the effect you want, however I've never used it, nor did I understand any of the words in the opening paragraph of that wikipedia article. Good fuck, my head hurts.

  http://park12.wakwak.com/~shp/lc…

  • interesting...– Gucci1/2

    That adjust dashes tool looks mighty useful...– fresnobob2/2

  

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  Dog-earDec 23, 09, 4:12 a.m. – Permalink

• Spookytim

  Its grid based. Just create a grid, start at a central point, draw with the pen tool, a smooth curve directly outwards, then hit the fi

  actually I haven't got time for this, I'm going to make lunch.

  Its easy though. Just think about it.

  • lols– formula

  

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  Dog-earDec 23, 09, 4:16 a.m. – Permalink

• janne76

  download SVG
  http://upload.wikimedia.org/wiki…
  Import into AI

  voilà.

  • bad advice– version3

  

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  Dog-earDec 23, 09, 5:05 a.m. – Permalink

• mikabast

  If I remember correctly Corel Draw can do Archimedean spirals. But that's probably not a big help for you.

  

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  Dog-earDec 23, 09, 5:19 a.m. – Permalink

• BIGGESTDOGINTHEWORLD

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  it's a curved line FFS!
  do people need fucking tutorials for everything these days?

  • He came here asking for help. No need to put him down.– boobs

  

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  Dog-earDec 23, 09, 6:15 a.m. – Permalink

• R-aI

  If you hold down the line tool in Illustrator more options appear. The Spiral tool is one of this options. If you select this, double click on the canvas, you can then enter details, radius, segments etc...

  • it only makes a logarithmic spiral not an archimedean– _niko1/3

    Clearly I'm out my depth here!
    Here is some stuff I found in a forum:http://www.gra...
    – R-aI2/3

    http://www.graphicde…– R-aI3/3

  

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  Dog-earDec 23, 09, 7:50 a.m. – Permalink

• armsbottomer

  you could code it in an environment that handles eps output. the algorithm is already mapped out for you...but something tells me this isn't the answer you're looking for.

  

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  Dog-earDec 23, 09, 9:16 a.m. – Permalink

• spendogg

  find a copy of illustrator 7

  • or was it 6?– spendogg

  

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  Dog-earDec 23, 09, 9:29 a.m. – Permalink

• BaskerviIle

  easy:
  http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Arc…

  

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  Dog-earDec 23, 09, 9:36 a.m. – Permalink

• BaskerviIle

  or Kimbo plugin for illy looks like it will do an archimedian spiral:
  http://www.versiontracker.com/dy…

  

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  Dog-earDec 23, 09, 9:40 a.m. – Permalink

• shapeaspect

  Hey thanks for the help guys. That link you provided R-al sorted it out for me

  

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  Dog-earDec 23, 09, 12:38 p.m. – Permalink

• lesterbanks

  I don't know if its accurate, but I used to do one old school why back when using the scale tool and a circle. I made a little demo...http://www.youtube.com/wa...

  • http://www.youtube.c…– lesterbanks1/2

    Nice one! I ended up just using javascript to do it, but that looks a lot simpler– shapeaspect2/2

  

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  Dog-earDec 23, 09, 3:17 p.m. – Permalink

• version3

  illustrator + javascript +

  

  = win

  

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  Dog-earDec 23, 09, 3:21 p.m. – Permalink

• version3

  http://x.justingum.com/spiral.pd…

  

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  Dog-earDec 23, 09, 3:24 p.m. – Permalink

• version3

  are we done here?

  

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  Dog-earDec 23, 09, 3:24 p.m. – Permalink

• 2michaelt

  ...just one more link:

  Archimedean Spiral
  Scripts for Adobe Illustrator CS (JavaScript)
  http://park12.wakwak.com/~shp/lc…

  • my bad... a version of that link was already posted. Just trying to be helpful.– 2michaelt

  

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  Dog-earDec 31, 09, 11:38 a.m. – Permalink