Triangles card dance

[Kevin Camp]

you should be able to do this with card dance (or card wipe)…. will need at least two different card dance effects on different layers, but offset from each other. the number of effects/layers may depend on the triangle configuration you want. start by sketching a grid, then draw triangles that fit within each grid (or card), and fill in the triangles. now when you look at the negative space, between the filled in triangles, there should be other triangles… those will need to be the other card dance layer.

this has been discussed here a few times in the past year (although with different shapes)… search for hexagon card or diamond card and see if those help…. post if you have any questions or problems with those.

Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Robert Paynter]

I understand your method but i was looking for perfect triangles. I suppose i could scale.

[Kevin Camp]

perfect triangle meaning equilateral (all equal sides)… that should be fine, you just need to use a grid (card size) where the height is height of the triangle and the width is the length of a side.

so going back to high school…. a(sq)+b(sq)=c(sq); lets call b, height. and a is equal to half of c. so the height is equal to the square root of the square of a side plus the square of half the side….

this will give you a ratio of height to side (or card width) that is 0.86602540378:1… a nice round number 😛

i would round that to .875:1, that will give you a ratio of whole rows to columns of 7:8 which should be a lot easier to use in card dance 🙂

Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Robert Paynter]

Thanks for the math .. I will give it a try and report back