{"id":2025,"date":"2009-07-26T16:46:20","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T15:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simoncpage.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2025"},"modified":"2010-06-01T21:01:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T20:01:02","slug":"fun-with-circles-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simoncpage.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/07\/fun-with-circles-designs\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with Circles designs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHere is a collection of my experimental fun with circles designs. Some of the below designs are at desktop wallpaper size (colourful universe 2 series) simply click on them to get the larger sizes or see below in download section for a list of desktop sizes.<\/p>\n

The inspiration for these initially came from this design<\/a> and this one<\/a> I saw on Flickr and probably my sub-conscious love of the Spirograph toy from my childhood (I used to spend hours on that ). I have added more inspirations below too.<\/p>\n

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These designs are very simple to replicate, if you want to try. I used actionscript to create about 200 circles rotated 360 degrees around with a varying gap from the centre, as shown below (but this can be done without actionscript in Illustrator). Once this was done I then took the Illustrator file created into Photoshop to add the colouring. Each of the 200 layers for each circle has a gradient overlay (as below) effect added with a hard light blend mode applied. I tried to capture the colours of a full colour wheel you see in some paint packages, like this<\/a>. I then packaged this into a smart object and added a number of bluring effects and multiple layers (basically experimenting with what looked best).<\/p>\n

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Other designs from the experimental fun with circles set<\/h2>\n

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Downloads<\/h2>\n