New tartan design tool feedback

**Pinch** · 10th April 23, 01:23 AM

Originally Posted by OC Richard

First, I love the ability to create any colour!

Most tartan designers I've tried limit you to stock colours, generally not allowing me to make what I want.

What's really cool is that I can adjust the colours after they're part of a tartan. I don't think I've seen one like that. Sometimes you don't know exactly what colour is needed until the tartan starts coming together.

However I found the method of building the tartan counterintuitive and clumsy.

Thanks Richard! Are you able to provide more insight on what in particular you found counter-intuitive and clumsy so I can potentially improve it?

**OC Richard** · 10th April 23, 04:49 PM

Originally Posted by Pinch

Thanks Richard! Are you able to provide more insight on what in particular you found counter-intuitive and clumsy so I can potentially improve it?

I suppose it's just due to what I'm used to.

For my brain the clearest way to conceptualise and compare tartans is like this

and tartanmaking programs that work that way (which have been all that I've tried) are easy for me to use.

In all probability there are many ways that people see tartans, but I only know the way I see them.

**Pinch** · 12th April 23, 04:17 AM

Thanks again guys.

I've renamed Herringbone as I've clearly misunderstood it, and re-implemented Basketweave.

Yes the format in those books does look particularly good for comparison, though this isn't really a comparison tool. Additionally it is actually represented in the strip above the ruler, so you could just ignore the intersecting preview if you explicitly wanted to focus on that style of stripped down view.

**kilted2000** · 12th April 23, 07:24 AM

Would you mind sharing the technologies you used to build this? I'm a software engineer so I'm interested in this sort of thing.

**Pinch** · 12th April 23, 01:18 PM

Originally Posted by kilted2000

Would you mind sharing the technologies you used to build this? I'm a software engineer so I'm interested in this sort of thing.

Sure, it's almost entirely just custom Javascript (JQuery) and a few minor third party Javascript libraries for some components like colour picking. The fabric preview is drawn in a HTML canvas, generated in a tiling manner and tiled as a repeating pattern.