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DEL VECHIO by permission from
Illustrator CC. O que há de novo?
Gustavo Del Vechio
For his PDF booklet,
Illustrator CC. O que há de novo?
(translated as
Illustrator CC:
What's new?)
, artist and author Gustavo Del Vechio created a pattern brush that
would demonstrate the various options available with the new auto-generated
corners in Illustrator CC. He's very kindly sharing with us his clear diagrams and
explanation of the way corner tiles are formed from the side tile. Note that in Pattern
Brush Options, Show Auto Generated Corner Tiles is enabled by default, so if you
don't see them in the list of corner tiles, make sure that's still enabled. There are a
few basic strategies that Illustrator uses to calculate corners for you, and combines
them in various combinations. These include stretching your pattern (like an art
brush), copying and then overlaying extensions of the patterns, and finally, making
cuts or “slicing” parts of the pattern in various ways, deleting the extraneous bits.
These auto-generated tiles will fit with the side tile, but don't forget to look at your
choices for both the Outer Corner and the Inner Corner, found on either side of your
side tile in the Pattern Brush dialog, to make sure you have corners that both fit well
and look good. See the following pages for a closer look at auto-corner options.
