Patterns Recap ~ Simple patterns

  Now that I have shown you the basic patterns involving squares, I would like to go into more depth with pattern concept.
     The straight coarse pattern only requires a copying of the original square moving in all directions. The brick and hopscotch pattern require two squares.
- for the brick, one half stepped above or below theother moving in all directions and for the
- hopscotch, a 1/4 size square set above or below one 1/2 side of the larger square expanding out in all directions.
     Next, I will show you more complex patterns that require 3 and four tiles to create the pattern, with the use of squares as well as rectangles.

Patterns Part # 3 ~ The Hopscotch

A hopscotch pattern is much different than the brick or straight do to its multiple perspectives, your eye can get stuck on one and not see the others, even though it's one pattern it has 5 different perspectives unlike the straight which has 2(square and diamond) or the brick which has 3(straight and stepped or same but on a 45 degree angle, making it a diamond brick pattern).
      Much like the straight coarse, the  hopscotch pinwheel has a 360 degree nature but it has 5 separate perspectives. From one direction the smaller tiles are stepped with the larger tiles and they also step at a different angle in the opposite direction, and while the larger tiles touch one another on a half step the smaller tiles are a full small tile step apart. The larger tiles create a pinwheel type pattern around the smaller tiles and the smaller tiles create a pinwheel type pattern in opposite direction around the larger tiles. In this pattern we see these 5 perspectives:

1) large tile pinwheel
2) small tile pinwheel 
  3) small/large tile diagonal step
   4) small/large tile diagonal step opposite direction and
    5) the whole pattern turned 45 degrees
 
   This pattern of coarse must use two separate tile sizes, the smaller tiles being 1/4 the size of the larger.

Patterns part # 2 ~ The Brick Pattern

    A brick pattern consists of many rows of equal sized squares or rectangles that are set one row above or below the other. To describe this pattern we must accept the horizontal row (x) as straight and the vertical row (y) as stepped. The pattern is made by setting every other row a 1/2 step further ahead or behind the row next to it. This is known as a true brick pattern or 1/2 stepped brick pattern, we can also do a 1/3 stepped or even random stepped brick patterns. The main concept in a brick pattern is that each straight row steps up to the next row. Of coarse this causes the joints to run in straight lines in one direction, and to break or step in the 90 degree direction from the straight lines. Tip for pattern concept; a brick pattern does not have a 360 degree nature like the straight lay pattern, it will always look different from the x to the y axis. To be a pattern, meaning not random. It must repeat itself.

Patterns part #1 ~ Simple straight lay

   This pattern can be turned on a 45 degree angle to create a diamond look or laid square to the room. It can resemble a checker board if two different colours are used, or multi coloured as this one is for a beautiful colour range. This particular colour palette is Indian Autum and the stone is Slate. Some porceline and ceramic products do very well at mimicking natural stone but they do not feel the same in texture nor look the same in random colour. Meaning a man made tile mimicking a natural stone repeats the specific tile again and again. Some man made tile palettes have 5 different tiles, some have twenty or more but natural stone never repeats itself, each tile is unique. This is a Straight Lay/ Diamond Pattern with Indian Autum Slate.

a tip in pattern concept; some patterns can branch outward from anypoint due to their 360 degree nature, no matter which way you turn it, it looks the same, as opposed to a brick pattern

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