655 Op art experiment 3b: Rolling windows

- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to take our…volumetric wave pattern and we're going to create a handful…of variations, ultimately ending in this pattern of…what I'm calling "Rolling Windows."…All right, so let's say you want to create a pattern…based on another one.…There's a couple of different ways to do it.…One, is to go over here to the swatches panel and…double-click on your pattern, which in my case is…called waving 300x300, and that's going to switch you…to the pattern editor, as well as bring up the pattern…options dialogue box.…

All right, so now what I'm going to do is grab the orange…waves, but because they are contained inside of a…clipping group, that's a little difficult to pull off.…So I'm going to go over here to the layers panel,…and because I want to twirl open everything, I'm going to…press the Alt key or the Option key on the Mac, and…click on the twirly triangle right there, and that's…going to expand the pattern, as well as the clipping group…right here, the clipping path at the top of the stack,…