822 Filling in the gaps in a repeating pattern

Welcome to Deke's Techniques. … Remember last week? … This in Illustrator, egads it's awful. … A monkey, a monkey with a typewriter … could have created this. … Wouldn't it be so much better … if it looked like this instead? … Of course this would require an entire room full of monkeys … Here, let me show you at least the beginning … of exactly how it works. … All right so here we are inside Illustrator … looking at that pattern from last week. … Once again, anywhere where you see white slivers … indicates a region of transparency. … We want to fill in that transparency … so that we have perfect tessellation, … which is why I've created this diagram … that focuses on the central tile. … And so notice what we're going to do here. … We're going to bring the yellow arrow into the negative space … next to the purple arrow, we're going to bring the green one … into the negative space next to the red arrow, … we're going to bring blue into orange, purple into yellow … and so forth so that we have interconnecting objects, …