[OSM-talk] rendering of areas with patterns

Simone Cortesi simone at cortesi.com
Fri Nov 28 10:35:27 GMT 2008


On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Ulf Mehlig <ulf.mehlig at gmx.net> wrote:

> My questions: does somebody have experience with preparing background
> patterns for "natural" area types, like woods, wetlands etc.? How do I
> prepare/tailor the bitmap tiles (margins, size, resolution, number of
> colours) used to render the pattern effectively? Can vector tiles be
> used? Am I right in assuming that a more "random" looking distribution
> cannot easily be obtained?

did you have a look at one of these tutorials?

http://www.cadtutor.net/tutorials/photoshop/seamless-tiles.php
http://www.photoshopforce.com/tutorials/seamless-repeating-tile-background/index.php
http://assaultblog.com/repeating-seamless-background-image-tutorial/

-S




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