Drawing a perfect hexagon?
Josh Dowdell
Does anyone know how to draw a perfect hexagon (8 sided thing) in Painter 4?
If so, how?
(please reply be email so I wont miss it)
TIA
Josh
Spamola
On Sat, 29 Nov 1997 17:31:00 -0600, "Josh Dowdell" <jo...@dowdell.com>
wrote:
A hexagon is a six sided thing...an octagon is an eight sided
thing...a duo decahedron...Well... that has more than eight sides...
twenty, I'd guess :)
Anyway, there's no "point and click" tool for drawing these ***agons
that I'm aware of. You'd be best off using a vector based prog for
this type of stuff.
If you have no other option than Photoshop, then it's time to grab
that rusty old grapefruit spoon and dig about in your brain a bit.
Remember geometry 101? That's the course that tells us that a hexagon
is made up of six equal sides, each intersecting each other at a 60
degree angle (360/6=60)....well, you could pop open the info menu and
keep that 60 degrees in mind while poking around with paths. You
could also make a horizontal line on a transparent layer, duplicate
it, then rotate the new layer by 60 degrees. Duplicate the original
again, then rotate it by 120, merge 'em all, then use that as a
guide...you get the idea. I'm the master at missing the obvious and
finding the "hard way" to do things, so there might be an easier way
out there...anyway...
Good luck!
--Rick
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Geo
Hi Rick ,
Most impressed by your "hard way" of solving things . Same here .
Sure your idea is great , as is remembering mathematics , but it
will only work in general with shapes whose number sides devide
360 degrees evenly . What about 7hedron , 9hedron
I thought I'll give you some food to prove your point .
Incidentally it can be done with PS4 , easily enough .
Is the Illustrator capable of doing that ?
Geo
Alexander Rose
geo...@ath.forthnet.gr wrote:
>Hi Rick ,
>
>Most impressed by your "hard way" of solving things . Same here .
>Sure your idea is great , as is remembering mathematics , but it
>will only work in general with shapes whose number sides devide
>360 degrees evenly . What about 7hedron , 9hedron
>I thought I'll give you some food to prove your point .
Erm...
Correct me if I'm wrong at this...
360 divided by 9 equals???
About 40, right?
So a 9hedron wouldn't be a problem.
See ya,
Alex
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Hey, that gives me an idea.
How about having "graph paper" backgrounds that you can load in as a layer,
to use as a drawing guide? Make whatever you need--isometric, hexes,
log-log, etc.
--John
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Bob Selfinger
In message <65q8id$4...@news.onramp.net> - "Josh Dowdell"
<jo...@dowdell.com>Sat, 29 Nov 1997 17:31:00 -0600 writes:
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:>Does anyone know how to draw a perfect hexagon (8 sided thing) in Painter 4?
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:>If so, how?
:>
:>(please reply be email so I wont miss it)
:>
:>TIA
:>
:>Josh
How about starting with two perfect squares,
and then rotating one of them by 45 degrees.
If you then put their centers both exactly on
top of each other, and do away with the extra
corners sticking out, I guess you will have
what you want.
Bob Selfinger
self...@ee.net
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Rich Mack
I just started Painter and lo and behold in the Plist of the Object
window is a thing called Paths which brings up the Object Paths window
and in there is an Octagon just waiting for you.
There's stars, a square, a hexagon, and triangles too.
Rich Mack
http://www.nwlink.com/~rmack
Henry Hartley
Just for the record:
hexagon - 6 sided thing
octagon - 8 sided thing
If the shape doesn't have to originate in Painter, consider using a drafting
program where you can specify length and angle of a line (i.e. Start at (0,0)
and draw a 2 inch line at a 60 degree angle (from horizontal), then another 2
inch line 120 degrees from that, (repeat that step five times) and you have a
hexagon.). You could then export that shape and import it into Painter.
Henry
The Fat Man
On Sat, 29 Nov 1997 17:31:00 -0600, "Josh Dowdell" <jo...@dowdell.com>
wrote:
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>> >Does anyone know how to draw a perfect hexagon (8 sided thing) in
>Painter 4?
(snip!)
Funny. Everywhere I look I find good ol' 6-sided hexagons and the odd
8-sided octagon, but this new breed I ain't gettin' to see...
narayan nayar
> Josh Dowdell wrote:
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> > Does anyone know how to draw a perfect hexagon (8 sided thing) in Painter 4?
geesh. in illustrator, use the polygon tool. export the illustration as
an eps or drag the path into photohsop. rather simple, eh?
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Ben Weiss
> > Josh Dowdell wrote:
> >
> > > Does anyone know how to draw a perfect hexagon (8 sided thing) in
Painter 4?
> > > If so, how?
>
Make a rectangular image, say 1024 x 512, and fill it with black. Set the
background PS color to white.
Then repeat twice:
Select All
Image->Rotate->Arbitrary 60 degrees
Deselect
Voila ;)
-Ben
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