KNOTSBAG 2.0 |
User's manual |
Abstract KnotsBag is shareware and is available here : http://www.hypatiasoft.fr. With KnotsBag you will be able to create beautiful knotwork by just clicking on points. You just have to create a graph. For that you create points with the mouse and you link the points with one of the four different links available. KnotsBag makes the knot from the graph. You can adjust the colours, widths, etc. before exporting in .svg for Inkscape or Illustrator (or .ai) to polish your work. |
I - Tools |
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move your drawing on the canvas | create a point | delete a point | move a point | | ||||
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cut a link | create a red link | create a blue link | create a perpendicular link | create a parallel link | ||||
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create a braidwork | tilling the selection | |||||||
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select points | flip selection | flip selection | move the selection left by 1 pixel | move the selection right by 1 pixel | move the selection up by 1 pixel | move the selection down by 1 pixel | rotate to the right the selection by a given angle | rotate to the left the selection by a given angle |
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create a polygon using two points of the polygon | create a polygon using one point of the polygon and the center | create an apex | create a drawing to make a tetraedron | create a drawing to make an hexaedron | create a drawing to make an octaedron | create a drawing to make a dodecaedron | create a drawing to make an icosaedron | |
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modify curves | modify display | modify grid | website | |||||
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see what you're modifying | modify the strip width | modify the offset curves width | modify the midle line width | |||||
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modify curves | modify angle | slide along the red links | slide perpendicularly to the blue links | modify the gap of the perpendicular links | modify the gap of the parallel links | modify the tangents of the perpendicular links | modify the tangents of the perpendicular links |
II - Video tutorials Click on the movie icon to start the tutorial. |
1- Creating a graph 1.1 Creating points. 1.1.1 Without grid. 1.1.2 Square grid. 1.1.3 Triangular grid. 1.2 Deleting points. 1.2.1 Deleting one point. 1.2.2 Deleting several points. | 2- Creating links 2.1 Red link. 2.2 Blue link. 2.3 Perpendicular link. 2.4 Parallel link. | 3- Using polygons 3.1 Creating polygons. 3.2 Creating polygrams. 3.3 Creating fractal polygons. | 4- Selection 4.1 Copying the selection. 4.2 Rotating the selection. |
5- Colours 5.1 Choosing colours. | 6- Corners 6.1 Adding corners. | 7- Braidwork / Tilling 7.1 Creating braidwork and tilling in GIMP. 7.2 Tilling in KnotsBag. | |
8- KnotsBag & Inkscape 8.1 Export and shadows. 8.2 Playing with layers. | 9- KnotsBag & GIMP 9.1 Export for Gimp. 9.2 Playing with textures. | 9- KnotsBag & Illustrator 9.1 Export and layers. 9.2 Path & shape 1. 9.3 Path & shape 2. |