Archimedean Spirals
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- shapeaspect
How does one create these in illustrator? My brain can't get around it.
- shapeaspect0
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.
- shitehawke0
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.
- Spookytim0
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.
- janne760
download SVG
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wiki…
Import into AIvoilà.
- mikabast0
If I remember correctly Corel Draw can do Archimedean spirals. But that's probably not a big help for you.
- BIGGESTDOGINTHEWORLD0
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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
- R-aI0
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_niko
- Clearly I'm out my depth here!
Here is some stuff I found in a forum:http://www.gra...
R-aI - http://www.graphicde…R-aI
- armsbottomer0
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.
- spendogg0
find a copy of illustrator 7
- BaskerviIle0
or Kimbo plugin for illy looks like it will do an archimedian spiral:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dy…
- shapeaspect0
Hey thanks for the help guys. That link you provided R-al sorted it out for me
- lesterbanks0
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…lesterbanks
- Nice one! I ended up just using javascript to do it, but that looks a lot simplershapeaspect
- version30
are we done here?
- 2michaelt0
...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