Two of us from the old Mulberry dorm 'family' went to Bohol to visit our friend's grave last February. We were met by another member at the port and we rode by bike from Tagbilaran to Batuan. It was raining all day but it was a good reunion. We lighted cigarettes -- we had no candles -- over the grave. It was good. We left the next day and our Boholano friend took us for a fly-by at the 'chocolate hills' viewing site where there's a hotel on the hilltop. Who would have thought we would find magic mushrooms on the hotel lawn? Well hello . . . old friends.
[Note: This was first published as a Facebook Note on January 29, 2016 . I am making it available here to add to the Inkscape pattern tutorials.] This is based on a tutorial for making hexagonal tiles for David White’s “The Battle for Wesnoth”, but you can skip the 72×72-pixel requirement. You can make your base hexagon in any size that looks good at 100% zoom. First, make a hexagon using the “Create stars and polygons” tool. Press the CTRL key while you’re dragging the cursor to make a proportioned hexagon like this: You may have to move the cursor around to have the hexagon lie on its side. Next, with the hexagon selected, remove the outline by holding SHIFT and left-clicking the ‘X’ swatch in the color palette: Replace the hexagon’s color with what you want by left-clicking the color swatches in the color palette – almost black, in this case: Next, add your main decoration. I just dropped-in a dragon I found at Wikimedia Commons: Group the hexagon and the object (selec...
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