turning patterns oops what's up i'm jonathan and welcome to maker tales where i'm sharing my maker
journey to help you go further in yours so don't forget to subscribe and hit that little bell icon
to never miss an opportunity to keep making this video is all about exploring turning patterns and
how to create them yourself now i'm going to show you this both using free and paid software so you
can get a hold of making your own turning patterns in any way that you like now first a very short
history on this turing went ahead and discovered a mathematical pattern while he was trying to figure
out how organic shapes can be created in nature that have patterns such as these now if you're
interested in finding out more there's a link in the card or down in the description so let's go
ahead and get straight into this so to create our touring patterns we're going to be using two free
programs one of them is called photopea which is basically a browser-based photoshop and the
next one is going to be inkscape which is a vector editing program so let's go ahead into photopea and
let's get started by making our project so we're going to click here on new project then we're
going to go and into screens and i'm going to go for a full hd canvas here and the first thing to
make sure is that your black this one and that one there that's completely black and completely white
from there we're going to go into filter we're going to go into render
and clouds you'll see that this will create black and white clouds then we're going to go to noise
add noise make it monochromatic and add the percentage up to 25 then from here we're going
to go into window and actions and then we're going to create a new set of actions and a new
action we're going to hit record and this time we're going to go into filter other high pass
here we're going to set the high pass to 6 pixels
and hit ok then we're going to go to image adjustments threshold and set this to 127.
lastly we're going to go filter blur
gaussian blur and set this to 3 pixels and hit ok then we're going to hit the stop recording
and just to show you what we've done what we can basically do is use this pass right
here if you hit apply a couple of times you'll see this turing pattern come to life
so i'm clicking here here quite a few times and you see how it comes out but it's a little bit
blurry well to sharpen this up what we do is we go over to image no not image
sorry we're going to go over to filter then we're going to go to sharpen and unsharpen mask
now we're going to put up some crazy high number here like 400 and 400 radius and hit ok and you'll
see how this sharpens the entire image now this is great however as you see we can't edit this
so i'm going to show you how to go ahead and be able to edit this in a way that makes it
almost like procedural generation we're going to create a new layer and turn it into a smart object
from here we're going to go and do the same thing filter render clouds then we're going to go filter
noise add noise make sure that it's 25 percent and monochromatic and hit okay then from here
because it's a smart object we're going to have a little bit weird thing
we're going to hit play and it's going to ask us to apply the threshold again
and unfortunately we're going to have to go ahead and redo this
whole gaussian blur but what i'm going to do is create a new action here
and i'm going to try and go ahead and put in the gaussian blur into that action there
but you see it won't save it because it's a smart object
this time around what i'm going to be doing is creating a new layer just so that we can apply
and record the gaussian layer being applied
so i'm going to hit record i'm going to go over to my filters blur gaussian blur set this to three
hit okay and you'll see that now i have action zero and action one so i'm gonna delete this
extra layer because i no longer need it go back to the smart object and what i want to do now is
do the first action zero which will give me that threshold pop-up i'm gonna put in one two seven
you can copy it now if you want to be able to copy and paste it in hit okay then go to
action one hit play and it'll do the gaussian blur and then we're gonna do this over and over
doing action zero and action one over and over and as you see on the right hand side each time that i
do this process we're getting this large list of effects that are being added to this smart
object now the main reason why we're doing this is that these means that these are smart effects
which means you can then change the effects later on to basically create unlimited turing
patterns really easily in a procedural manner once i have something that i feel comfortable with i'm
going to go ahead and sharpen this up using our unsharp mask once again set this to a very high
number so i'm going to go with 400 again and 400
and i'm going to go ahead and hit okay and now here is the power of why we're using
the smart objects so we have our turing pattern now the main thing that is really cool of this is
we're going to put in an effect before that first high pass so i'm going to go filter
distort you can use any of these for now i'm going to go ahead and use a twirl so when i click it
i get this effect i'm just going to put it up to some number that i feel will give
some sort of nice effect ignore the results that we're getting right this minute because this
looks nothing to what we're going to be getting i'm going to hit ok and then we're
going to go to the twirl and we're just going to drag it down before that first high pass
and as easy as that we have now affected our turing pattern with a distortion of our
own now something else that you can do is you can actually click in these smart
filters so to speak using that little cog on the right hand side of them
and here you can go ahead and change this so let's add in
some more noise and you'll see how that changes the turing pattern and go really high up
or you can go really low down and see the different types of effects that you'll get
with this turing pattern you can add more distortions you can add less distortions you can
go to your heart's content and just play around to see something that you feel comes out that you
like the look of once you have something that you're happy with let's go ahead and save this
i'm going to go file export as a jpeg i'm going to save this to the highest quality possible hit save
and now i'm going to bring this into inkscape just before we turn these turner patterns into
a vector i need to shout out nobu design because they are the ones that inspired me to go ahead and
play around with this turner pattern the link is down in the description to their channel and also
in the card because i completely learned how to do turner patterns from them they also have many
other patterns that you can go ahead and learn from so feel free to go over there and test them
out so with our image now just drag and dropped into inkscape you can see that it's a decent size
what we're going to do is we're going to head over to path we're going to go to trace bitmap
and these the settings that i find work pretty well for me feel free to change this as i don't
know inkscape as well as i know illustrator but this has given me nice results we're going to
hit ok it won't take too long for it to process and then once it's finished processing just drag
out and there you have it that there is vector that there is the jpeg we no longer need the
jpeg so i'm just going to delete it and now that we have this vector file let's go ahead
i'm going to go into the stroke and fill i'm going to remove the fill i'm going to add a stroke to it
and there you have it using this file here we can go ahead and use this within laser cutters
within cnc's whatever we're wanting to create here is your turing pattern to play around with
now very quickly i want to show you that here within photoshop it's exactly the same you can
see here are all the effects put onto a smart object you can see here are our actions and
here are our clouds and our add noise and as you see if i just click and play around with all
these different distortion settings you can get an unlimited amount of turn turner patterns from this
now one thing that is good about photoshop is when you do the actions you don't have to keep clicking
in it just does it all the way but of course photoshop is paid and i wanted to show you
a free way of doing this you can see here playing around with the noise you can get
all types of different turner patterns now just very quickly i'm going to show you
me playing around with in illustrator me quickly turning this using the live trace and going ahead
and just creating these coasters and these puzzles super quickly not really going to do
a tutorial so to speak but i'm just going to go ahead and put a time lapse of me playing around
with the turner pattern and showing you my laser cut files that i create at the end
and there you have it that's how to go ahead and create your own turing patterns now what you've
seen there is a work in progress of a puzzle now there's a lot more i could go ahead and sort
out with this in fact i am going to go ahead and create an entire series of small puzzles that
the files will be available to download to buy on etsy for the price of a couple of coffees on top
of that in case you don't want to go ahead and do the legwork of creating your own touring pattern
there is going to be a super cheap turing pattern set on etsy where you can get 50 turing patterns
that have all been created by me that you could go ahead and create them into whatever you want
and they're literally just going to be the price of a coffee anyway guys i hope you enjoyed this if
you do and you think i'm worthy of your support i would love to see you on patreon and speaking
of patreon thank you so much to my amazing supporters it's great to have you there and
it's been great to talk with you over on discord speaking of discord i have a discord channel now
the link is down in the description and you don't have to be in patreon to join it so go
ahead i'd love to speak to you there thank you for watching keep making and let the quest continue
so for those key nerd of you i'm sure you've heard me say turner patterns or turin patterns
or something just need to make sure you know these are turing patterns i just realized
through this edit how many times i've screwed that up but yes it's called a turing pattern