We can apply the same logic to a painting. As you can see, all the polka dots within the blue section away from the edges are now full circles. If I use this pattern to fill up a larger image you get the effect in the image below. Anything in the green section can be freely drawn. This is because anything around the edges of your patterns must be aligned with each other to achieve a continuous effect. Within the blue section, the polka dots appear as semi-circles on the edges of the image and as quarters in the corners. On the right, is the same image that I have split into two sections a blue section and a green section. On the left, we have a simple polka dot pattern. Step 1įirst I’ll explain the principles of seamless patterns. Fear not, I’ll break down how I painted my own version of The Starry Night swirl and made it into a seamless pattern. I will refer back to this colour scheme when deciding the symbology for my different map components.Ĭreating a seamless pattern can be confusing, but creating a seamless pattern with multiple brushstrokes and colours? Downright complicated. To create a general colour scheme, I used a colour picker and selected 5 shades within the painting. Thus, I was immediately inspired to use the swirling pattern as the main focus of the map and to use it to depict the world’s oceans. The swirls in the night sky are very reminiscent of waves (with some art historians speculating that The Starry Night was partially inspired by Hokusai’s The Great Wave). Therefore, I knew I wanted to create a map inspired by this painting as it is instantly recognisable as one of Van Gogh’s works. The Starry Night is one of Van Gogh’s most renowned paintings. If you want to learn about how I made this basemap, keep on reading. Feel free to use it in your maps! Below are some of the screenshots of the basemap. The basemap is compatible for use within Map Viewer and ArcGIS Pro and is available up to a scale of 1:288,895. Vincent Van Gogh is one of my favourite artists, so I decided to create this ‘ The Starry Night’ inspired basemap. Cartographers have always been influenced by artistic practices, so wouldn’t it be great if we could make maps in the style of our favourite paintings? This idea may seem a little outlandish but with the help of modern-day GIS technologies, the task that once would have taken months to complete by hand can now be done in a matter of days.
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