812 Welcome to my seamlessly repeating summer

- Hey, gang, this is Deke McClelland. … Welcome to Deke's Techniques … and what I'm calling my seamlessly repeating summer. … That is to say, a summer of techniques that repeat … and repeat and repeat and repeat, … which is already in progress, by the way. … We started creating seamlessly repeating, … perfectly tessellating tile patterns a couple of weeks … before summer even started … when we made these inter-connecting 24-sided stars. … But that was just the beginning. … Next week, we're going to start work … on this orthogonal object here, whatever it is, … and then we'll repeat it like crazy … to create this elaborate background, … complete with gradients and blends. … Next, we'll create this radial pattern … of 3-D isometric arrows using just the line segment tool. … And over the course of a few creative adjustments, … we'll ultimately achieve this crazy pattern … of inter-connecting faces. … We'll make this op art tunnel of repeating triangles, … which is, frankly, a little hard to even look at …