{"id":622,"date":"2008-04-21T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T23:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/?p=622"},"modified":"2008-04-21T09:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-20T23:29:00","slug":"illustrator-kaleidoscope-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/illustrator-kaleidoscope-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Illustrator Kaleidoscope Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Found <a href=\"http:\/\/creativebits.org\/illustrator\/duplicate_a_shape_using_the_rotate_tool\">here<\/a>, a great trick, if a little uncontrollable. Start drawing a shape, say an arc or an ellipse. While the mouse button is down, keep dragging around and press ` (grave, under tilde, next to 1). Many shapes ensue.<\/p>\n<p>If that&#8217;s a bit random for you, create a shape, then apply Effect &gt; Distort and Transform &gt; Transform, rotate by 12\u00b0, 14 copies. Click the New button in the Graphic Styles panel to save that as a graphic style. You&#8217;ll want a variation with 29 copies for asymmetrical objects or with 20 for something random in-between. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Found here, a great trick, if a little uncontrollable. Start drawing a shape, say an arc or an ellipse. While the mouse button is down, keep dragging around and press ` (grave, under tilde, next to 1). Many shapes ensue. If that&#8217;s a bit random for you, create a shape, then apply Effect &gt; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/illustrator-kaleidoscope-tricks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Illustrator Kaleidoscope Tricks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}