Preserved Topic: Gear Makin (Page 1 of 1)

I'm looking for a way in PS to segment a circle evenly, haven't had much luck finding a tut
wondering if you guys could point me in the right direction.

Darn now I'm thinking of pie,
segmenting circles has made me very hungry.
I'll be back, anyone want a slice?


It's the little things in life that make it beautiful. That's why I'm a big fan of the atom.

Gears? Try Polar coordinates.

Cookie?



Edit: Polar coords is good for segmenting circles too.

[This message has been edited by mahjqa (edited 08-15-2001).]

Polar coords is good. Great for dividing a circle into a certain number of sections. I want this many pieces of pie... this many vertical lines... Polar Coords...

For making gears, there is also the ever popular copy and rotate method.
http://www.neofrog.com/tips/cog.html

~stared at warjournal while scratching his head~



~Pop's over the the GN....~

~Pop's back in with a very big and heavy metal pole~

:Confused:

~Slams warjournal on the side of the head with said big metal pole~

I can't believe it! You wrote the dam tutorial and you still forget to mention it!

Hopefully that kock I gave you will start things clicking back up top again.

~Grabs a slice of pie and skips off~


~skip~ ~skip~ ~munch~ .....ooohh.. blueberry! my fav! ~skip~

LOL. Using Mulit-Stroke for gears isn't exactly conducive. Sure, I did the serrated saw thing, but not a gear. What makes serrated saw work is the *circular* brushes -- can't exactly get a blocky shape to rotate around the center when stroking. Know what I mean?

The only way I can think of for doing a gear with Multi-Stroke is to do it in a straight line then Polar Coords it, but you might as well use Define Pattern for the Polar Coords route.

Although, I once took the base serrated saw shape, Gauss, then Level. That was pretty neat. With some playing, you can get some coggish shapes. Let's see... 5 minutes later - coggish.jpg

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