455 Islamic design 1: Flirting with geometric genius

- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland.…Welcome to Deke's Techniques.…Now I'm calling this episode Islamic design 1:…Flirting with geometric genius.…Which might be overselling things a little bit,…because what we'll really be doing…is creating this design right here.…Which is based on a Tunisian stained glass window…found at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.…And it's indicative of the kind of thing…you find across the Arab world,…which is why I'm calling it an Arabic pattern in the movies.…Now this an intense project,…which is why I'm dividing it into six episodes…over the course of three weeks.…

Starting with the creation of this 16 point star right here.…And so in this movie we're going to create…a total of four of those stars.…But they're hardly the kinds of objects…that you can create with the conventional star tool.…Rather they're rotation patterns.…And so we'll be starting with this collection…of three path outlines shown in black…and then we'll rotate them around a first time,…as shown in red,…as second time, as shown in green,…