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TalyrasMirror — AutoCad Celtic Circle
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Source art: MeMaterial: White wood turntable, from IKEA.
Finish: Colonial maple polyurethane by Minwas
Date: July 2007
It is 15.25 inches in diameter.
Whenever I talk about this piece, I like to say that I taught AutoCad to do Celtic knotwork. I still have this piece. It is for sale.
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Comments: 26
OUTSTANDING Celtic Art and Wood Workmanship....!!!!
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Your beautiful artwork is featured here - [link] . Well done!
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You really created a beautiful looking piece, very nicely done!
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Wow, AutoCAD is not the program I would choose to do anything if I didn't have to 
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Mostly, I used the trim, extend, array and mirror functions. The piece is 5 identical sections rotated about a single point. This was one of the first mandala like images I made, I've made bunches more, but haven't done much with them, other than store them electronically. I haven't even printed most of them. Anyway, the newer ones are actually more efficient in their use of the Autocad functions, they can be filled and colored and exported and stuff.
I was just playing around.
K
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Sometimes the best things come from playing around
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Thank you! I'm glad you like it.
Kathleen
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Hello Kathleen,
thanks for your detailed answer, that's very nice of you.
I'm familiar with AutoCAD and Photoshop so it is no problem to produce what you described.
The little word which I maybe used wrong is 'realtime'.
I mean just in the moment when I draw a line I want to see if it's getting problems in one of the other sections because my line is drawn by the program 4 more times in the same moment.
Puh...I hope this was to understand
greetz
Marcus
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I have seen a program like that, but it was some kids thing that only did a mirror image. I don't even remember what it was.
Sorry.
Kathleen
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It's a fav of mine!
Like in nature, here I like that it's 5 times rotated.
I'm still looking for a program that completes the whole circle in realtime if you paint in one part.
Do you know what I mean?
greetings
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Thanks, I'm glad you like it!
If by "completing the whole circle" you mean taking the repeated section and copying it multiple times around the center point of the circle, then most art or graphic programs will do it, if you figure out their quirks. They won't do it automatically. But you can copy your repeated section, pick a point about which to rotate it, and paste it at the required rotational angle.
So, copy your motif, which is 1/5th of a circle, rotate it 72 degrees, and paste it so that the centers are the same point. If you do this multiple times, you get your circle with 5 identical segments. You may have to do some clean-up, and you may have to check you interlace, to be sure it is correct.
I know you can do this in AutoCad and Paint Shop Pro. In Paint Shop, you have to make sure that your canvas size is big enough to accommodate your finished circle, you also have to do the rotation in a second image, and copy back and forth. But it does work.
AutoCad lets you draw all over the place, and later lets you pick what you want to print.
For any other program, there are probably sites that tell you how to do stuff. You should be able to find what instructions you need, if you do some surfing.
HTH
Kathleen
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This is awesome, the fact that all those circles are identical. So did you do this up in CAD and then transfer the work?
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Thank you!
Yes. I drew it on a computer, with AutoCad Lt 2004, printed it on a big plotter, and then carved it, by hand, with knives.
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That's very impressive! I'm a big fan of any hand carved stuff. Thanks for answering the question by the way.
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Now that is wild. All those loops and twists make it so I can hardly follow the strand.
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