938 Halftone pattern and Zig Zag in Illustrator

- Hey, gang, this is Deke McClelland. … Welcome to "Deke's techniques". … As you may recall, we are currently in the process … of creating this wickedly articulated cat's eye … inside Adobe Illustrator. … All in celebration of Halloween. … Today, we're about to build up … the fantastically intricate iris … using a couple of dynamic filters … that just happen to run inside Illustrator: … halftone pattern and zig zag. … Halftone pattern comes to us from Photoshop, … meaning that it actually produces a pixel-based effect. … Even inside the resolution-independent, … hallowed halls of Illustrator. … The other filter, zig zag, is all vectors, … but it's expressed as two words, zig and then zag, … which is perhaps a nod to the fact … that you get more than you bargained for. … See this ridges per segment value? … A value of one gives us one bend. … So the segment zigs and then it zags. … A value of two makes it zig, zag, and then zig again. … You always get one extra zig, … so odd values produce even quantities, …