Wallpaper patterns
Click and drag the green, red or blue dots to change the pattern. Choose the type of pattern from the menu on left.
Load other images
Upload your own image:
The best size for images is 640 by 480, other images may be too big or too small. Images should be less than 200K and in gif, jpeg or png format. In-apropriate images will be removed. By uploading and image you release them into the public domain.
The patterns
This applet draw a set of set of wallpaper pattern, which are repeating patterns which fill the plane and exhibit certain mathematics symmetries. There are only 17 different possible types which fill the plane and the different patterns have been known for quite a long time now.
See mathematical description for more details.
 | P1 |  | P2 |  | CM |  | CMM | ||
 | PM |  | PG |  | PMG |  | PGG |  | PMM |
 | P4 |  | P4M |  | P4G | ||||
 | P3 |  | P31M |  | P3M1 |  | P3 |  | P3M |
The patterns are made by combination of different types of symetry including, Translation (All patterns have this), Reflection (M), Glide-Reflection - translate a bit and then reflect (G) 180° rotation (P2), 120° rotation (P3), 90° rotation (P4), 60° rotation (P6).
Full application
A full version of this applet is available, which additional features:
- Load and save images to disk
- Cut and paste facilities
- Resizing, crop and zoom images
- Window can be enlarged and scrolled
- Creation of tileable backgrounds for desktops and webpages
- Animation
| £20.00 | $40.00 |
Screensaver
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Explore animated symmetry patterns of your own images with the wallpaper-screensaver.
The screensaver runs on windows and unix and can loop through a selection of images and symmetry patterns.
The screensaver has been made using the Java Saverbeans library. See the FAQ and Screensaver pack for other java screensavers. |
| £5.00 | $10.00 |
The screensave will run on:
- Windows - WinME/NT/2000/XP/2003
- Unix - Sun Java Desktop System (JDS) Release 1 or greater, SuSE Linux 7.1 or greater, RedHat Linux 8 or greater, Solaris 8 or greater
It requires Java 1.5 or later, download from http://java.com/en/ and adminstrator accesss to install.
Readers comments
Very Cool!
harold shoemaker Sat Oct 6 2007
Will this stuff work with Vista?
Vista
Rich Sat Oct 6 2007
Yes it should work with vista. It is built using java and will run everywhere where java runs.
The best thing i have seen in ages!
The Reveller Wed Apr 2 2008
I have been looking for Photoshop pattern plugins without success but this is so much cooler.