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Popular Pattern Types: Checks

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Check patterns are the easiest to create with the Pinwheel

, Quarter-turns & mirrors

, Quarter-turns & rotated mirrors

, and Perpendicular mirrors & glide symmetries

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Symmetries for creating check patterns

Sample check pattern

Source image credit: A photograph by Ritchyblack / Stefan Krause.

Use the the straight (right-triangle-shaped, "un-skewed") control path with the Perpendicular mirrors & glide

symmetry to create checks.

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