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.
