spirograph?

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  • detritus0

    Ooh, not an answer (I'm here because I'm interested in one myself :) but this is handy, from a comment in one of the links posted..

    A decade on Illy, and I never knew!

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    fidel | Sat, 2005-07-02 18:37

    Well,

    there is even a more interesting way of spirographing in Illustrator.

    You can use every geometrical (rectangle, ellipse,...) with this feature.

    Be cautious because this feature takes counts of: the speed by wich you move the mouse, and you can rotate.

    Choose your geometrical formtool, lets say a star.

    Now before starting drawing a star, use the key just right of the shift-key. It's the key with the greater (>) and smaller (<) icons on a mac keyboard.

    Now start drawing with the specific key pushed down.

    This is real spirographing.

    Ok you can't be sure of the effect but it is fun to see how Illlustrator does this. haven't checked of this works in other Adobe progs.

    Try it and have some fun
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    • I'm going to give this a try.marcostill
    • were you able to get this to work? nothing is happening for me.marcostill
    • I was about to post this. It's quite a nice, if somewhat unpredicatable effect.JerseyRaindog
    • i still can't get it to work, not sure what i'm doing wrong and my <> keys are not right of shift key on a mac.marcostill
    • On my keyboard it's the key second to the LEFT of the right-side shift. '/" (although I might have swapped this key..detritus
    • ..just to confuse things—I'm a PC with an Apple keyboard).detritus
    • PC try holding tilde key (~) while dragging a shape, I think this is similarmonNom
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