So while copying a standard pattern onto a piece of A5 paper, I made a mistake when transferring a tracing, and the pattern had a ‘flaw’. I thought it looked interesting, so tried to deconstruct it, then reconstruct on a larger scale. The plan I came up with looked like this:
Here the different coloured circles (red, blue) are the elements (macroelements?) from the original pattern, laid out here as square geometry and octagonal geometry in an alternating pattern. Joining these - in the gaps - are yellow circles which are the flaws from the original attempt on A5 (flaw parts in cross-hatching).
I took this plan, and sketched it out at the A3 scale I was planning, to see how the flaws would fall out. In doing this, I realised that the flaws had an orientation:
I found here that masking tape (maybe obviously?) was really useful for showing the orientation of the flaws. I ‘classified’ them, and planned to make them more regular in the final version.
Finally, on nicer A3 paper, I traced out more carefully the final pattern, trying to make the flaws obvious.
The colours I chose were deliberate - a more neutral tan/blue for most elements, and red for the flaw parts. It did not quite work - the flaws are not as obvious as I had hoped, and indeed I accidentally left out some of the flaws! I realised you can probably fill in the gaps just using existing elements.
Mistakes were made.
Anyway, I think the final result is still interesting, and I like it even if it did not quite achieve what I hoped.