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Sunday, January 8, 2012

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.