I teach pattern design as part of an illustrator module. The patterns generated by this app are cool. But for serious pattern making look at the wallpaper designs of William Morris (at the bottom of the linked page is a good example). The craft lays in defining the limits of the repeat element. Sometimes even finding the repeat is tough work. Google his wallpaper designs and try it yourself.

https://www.design-is-fine.org/post/47801446193/repeat-patte...

This is really great I love it. Also love the dithering tool [1]. The gameboy preset brings back great memories.

[1] https://doodad.dev/dither-me-this

I remember when I first started making websites how hard it was to find patterns, and often times you'd have to make them yourself. It's sadly ironic how we have these great tools today for customizing, styling, etc., and yet much of the internet is a carbon copy and all websites, blogs, and social profiles seem to look exactly the same.

make your own kind of net! HTML and CSS are cool again

This! I just learned how to use Hugo to generate a static site and it’s just sooo much fun!

The UX of this is very well executed. Thank you.

Saved tiles ignore the rotation setting and are always horizontal.

Additionally, hitting Shuffle always shows the same patterns in the same sequence after refreshing the page.

Yea noticed shuffle cycles around too quickly. There are plenty of attributes to play with so that shouldn't happen.

Otherwise I like it! Custom wallpapers perhaps

Great UX, great tool.

I wish "shuffle" truly randomized the settings, rather than cycled through a dozen presets. Maybe separate button to shuffle just the patterns and not the colors? Color shuffling is where most of the ugly outliers would come from.

Penrose-style aperiodic tiles?

Damn this is some delightful mobile UI

I thought this was amazing until I realized there’s only 12 base patterns. I expected the base patterns to be generated too, not hand authored. While you can make adjustments the changes are minor. Really undercuts the name of the tool. Sorry to be a downer.

It is not claiming to be ‘the tool’, just a royalty free pattern generator that can be used in thousands+ of combinations. There are other similar tools out there and there are even open source tools that can be extended in custom ways. Only search for it, don’t expect things to come to you exactly how you want them.

Nice!

I still miss the generated patterns that were available for backgrounds on geocities.

And Windows 95 https://doodad.dev/pattern-generator?share=hex-4-255_0_0_1-0...

For the dither lovers.

https://8bitartwork.co.uk/#history

These could be really useful for things like shader graphs where you're composing raw patterns into more complex effects

Enjoyed your windowed GUI style and the dithering tool also. GW

Amazing project with a great UI/UX. Kudos to you.

man this is a beautiful achievement

Fantastic. Added it to the design toolkit. It’s rare something new gets in there. This is a new category for me.

Excellent doodad.

Cute as hell