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[Himewad]

I got your customization right here. When I was having my NUTS CPC inlay designs finalized by @timinater , I asked him to put a slightly different tree bark pattern on each denomination. Which he did, and I noticed it right away when I got my chips. I love it, because it makes every denomination feel even more unique.

Then, the last couple of days I've been going through my chips one by one, looking for edge spot errors. I happened to notice that the tree bark background was different on a couple of the T500 chips. I thought, "that's odd." Then I pulled out a barrel of T500 chips. EVERY SINGLE CHIP IS DIFFERENT!!! How is that possible??? A couple of backgrounds have similarities, but there is something different in every background. This chip set keeps getting better and better!

 

[raynmanas]

No really, how is that possible? Did you guys send 200 (or however many) different inlays to CPC? They print what they get.

 

[Himewad]

No really, how is that possible? Did you guys send 200 (or however many) different inlays to CPC? They print what they get.

I agree. I actually want to know myself. I'm gonna have to check the rest of my chip denominations, but the few others that I have sampled show the same randomness to the tree bark background. It's amazing.

 

[timinater]

This looks like a happy accident!

How is that possible?

No really, how is that possible? Did you guys send 200 (or however many) different inlays to CPC? They print what they get.

If you think of a the area where the pattern is as a window, you could move that window around and see different areas of the pattern behind it.

There is a setting in illustrator when moving objects that use a pattern that you can choose to either move the pattern and "window" together, or just move the "window" and you would see different areas of the pattern.

My guess would be that when CPC was arranging the inlays for printing this setting was off and resulted in some number of unique inlays. If they print 20/sheet you might find 20 unique bark patterns on the inlays.

 

[TX_Golf_N_Poker]

I agree. I actually want to know myself. I'm gonna have to check the rest of my chip denominations, but the few others that I have sampled show the same randomness to the tree bark background. It's amazing.

That is very cool! Are you going to ask David how they did it?

 

[JeepologyOffroad]

This looks like a happy accident!



If you think of a the area where the pattern is as a window, you could move that window around and see different areas of the pattern behind it.

There is a setting in illustrator when moving objects that use a pattern that you can choose to either move the pattern and "window" together, or just move the "window" and you would see different areas of the pattern.

My guess would be that when CPC was arranging the inlays for printing this setting was off and resulted in some number of unique inlays. If they print 20/sheet you might find 20 unique bark patterns on the inlays.

100% this is how it happened imo. So cool especially for a set like this

 

[Himewad]

That is very cool! Are you going to ask David how they did it?

Considering that I already want to expand this set, I will definitely be sending a note to David so that it gets “windowed” like this again.

 

[Fran]

I agree. I actually want to know myself. I'm gonna have to check the rest of my chip denominations, but the few others that I have sampled show the same randomness to the tree bark background. It's amazing.

And That’s a good reason to spend more time with your new babies

 

[warma]

I think you’re going to break CPC…

If that were something we could set up on a template…

 

[chutracheese]

Going to have to go check mine now!

 

[chutracheese]

Same for mine. That's so cool!

 

[Quicksilver-75]

I'm thinking it's the way they are plotted his art board. If the inlay art isn't "expanded" and is just clip-pathed its possible as the each Inlay is plotted it shares the same background pattern. I've had this happen with some backgrounds on my chips, too.

 

[TheOffalo]

This looks like a happy accident!



If you think of a the area where the pattern is as a window, you could move that window around and see different areas of the pattern behind it.

There is a setting in illustrator when moving objects that use a pattern that you can choose to either move the pattern and "window" together, or just move the "window" and you would see different areas of the pattern.

My guess would be that when CPC was arranging the inlays for printing this setting was off and resulted in some number of unique inlays. If they print 20/sheet you might find 20 unique bark patterns on the inlays.

I have a question (or more than one) on this theory. I get the concept, it's almost like if you had one large canvas of the bark pattern, and you overlaid a grid of circles, each one would show a different grain pattern. But that's not really the case, since I assume the design submitted had just one image per denom.

Even if the "bleed" area of the bark background for a denom was rather large, and the "window" shifted subtly for each copy of the same denom when CPC laid out the inlays to print, wouldn't the squirrel and denom parts of the graphic also shift noticeably (based on how different some of the bark looks)? But instead, the squirrel and denom look pretty consistently aligned within the inlay area.

 

[Himewad]

I have a question (or more than one) on this theory. I get the concept, it's almost like if you had one large canvas of the bark pattern, and you overlaid a grid of circles, each one would show a different grain pattern. But that's not really the case, since I assume the design submitted had just one image per denom.

Even if the "bleed" area of the bark background for a denom was rather large, and the "window" shifted subtly for each copy of the same denom when CPC laid out the inlays to print, wouldn't the squirrel and denom parts of the graphic also shift noticeably (based on how different some of the bark looks)? But instead, the squirrel and denom look pretty consistently aligned within the inlay area.

I’m not an AI expert by any means, but I believe vector files work in layers. So the tree bark background is one layer, irrespective of the logo (or squirrel) and denomination. It’s just the tree bark layer that shifts somehow. But I’m kind of talking out of my ass right now.

 

[TheOffalo]

I’m not an AI expert by any means, but I believe vector files work in layers. So the tree bark background is one layer, irrespective of the logo (or squirrel) and denomination. It’s just the tree bark layer that shifts somehow. But I’m kind of talking out of my ass right now.
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Totally get the layer concept. But if the circular inlay “window” shifts, it should shift relative to both the bark layer and the other graphical elements, but it doesn’t seem to be doing that. Shrug.

 

[NeoViny23]

I got your customization right here. When I was having my NUTS CPC inlay designs finalized by @timinater , I asked him to put a slightly different tree bark pattern on each denomination. Which he did, and I noticed it right away when I got my chips. I love it, because it makes every denomination feel even more unique.

Then, the last couple of days I've been going through my chips one by one, looking for edge spot errors. I happened to notice that the tree bark background was different on a couple of the T500 chips. I thought, "that's odd." Then I pulled out a barrel of T500 chips. EVERY SINGLE CHIP IS DIFFERENT!!! How is that possible??? A couple of backgrounds have similarities, but there is something different in every background. This chip set keeps getting better and better!

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That effect is absolutely amazing and it turned out beautiful. That is by far the best „odd stuff“ I‘ve ever seen. Freaking awesome!!!! …. or should I call it „the nuts“?

 

[CSW]

I got your customization right here. When I was having my NUTS CPC inlay designs finalized by @timinater , I asked him to put a slightly different tree bark pattern on each denomination. Which he did, and I noticed it right away when I got my chips. I love it, because it makes every denomination feel even more unique.

Then, the last couple of days I've been going through my chips one by one, looking for edge spot errors. I happened to notice that the tree bark background was different on a couple of the T500 chips. I thought, "that's odd." Then I pulled out a barrel of T500 chips. EVERY SINGLE CHIP IS DIFFERENT!!! How is that possible??? A couple of backgrounds have similarities, but there is something different in every background. This chip set keeps getting better and better!

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This is absolutely amazing. What an incredibly fortunate anomaly. Sounds to me like a new frontier in chip design. I’m now going to be trying to think of ways to use this background effect in my next set. Congrats (again) on the set!

 

[David Spragg]

This looks like a happy accident!



If you think of a the area where the pattern is as a window, you could move that window around and see different areas of the pattern behind it.

There is a setting in illustrator when moving objects that use a pattern that you can choose to either move the pattern and "window" together, or just move the "window" and you would see different areas of the pattern.

My guess would be that when CPC was arranging the inlays for printing this setting was off and resulted in some number of unique inlays. If they print 20/sheet you might find 20 unique bark patterns on the inlays.

Where is this setting as we can't find it anywhere?
When I try at home and copy them to the printing grid then I get them all identical.

 

[David Spragg]

I got your customization right here. When I was having my NUTS CPC inlay designs finalized by @timinater , I asked him to put a slightly different tree bark pattern on each denomination. Which he did, and I noticed it right away when I got my chips. I love it, because it makes every denomination feel even more unique.

Then, the last couple of days I've been going through my chips one by one, looking for edge spot errors. I happened to notice that the tree bark background was different on a couple of the T500 chips. I thought, "that's odd." Then I pulled out a barrel of T500 chips. EVERY SINGLE CHIP IS DIFFERENT!!! How is that possible??? A couple of backgrounds have similarities, but there is something different in every background. This chip set keeps getting better and better!

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You said

"I asked him to put a slightly different tree bark pattern on each denomination"

I just looked back at Tim's original file and the background is identical on all denoms.

 

[David Spragg]

Where is this setting as we can't find it anywhere?
When I try at home and copy them to the printing grid then I get them all identical.

This looks like a happy accident!



If you think of a the area where the pattern is as a window, you could move that window around and see different areas of the pattern behind it.

There is a setting in illustrator when moving objects that use a pattern that you can choose to either move the pattern and "window" together, or just move the "window" and you would see different areas of the pattern.

My guess would be that when CPC was arranging the inlays for printing this setting was off and resulted in some number of unique inlays. If they print 20/sheet you might find 20 unique bark patterns on the inlays.

PS - When I open your original file the background is identical on all denoms. One pattern for all the fronts, different one for all the backs.

 

[timinater]

PS - When I open your original file the background is identical on all denoms. One pattern for all the fronts, different one for all the backs.

I'll send you an email. @David Spragg

 

[Natskule]

That is awesome.

Makes a great chipset even better. Got a feeling this is the first of many "randomized backgrounds" that we will see. I've already got the wheels turning.

Hope Gear and David are ready as this will be requested a fair amount.

 

[Himewad]

Where is this setting as we can't find it anywhere?
When I try at home and copy them to the printing grid then I get them all identical.

Looks like @timinater is giving you the details, which is good because I’m not sure I could explain it.

Just curious … you said that my add-on order inlays were already printed. Did those turn out the same awesomely random way?

 

[David Spragg]

Looks like @timinater is giving you the details, which is good because I’m not sure I could explain it.

Just curious … you said that my add-on order inlays were already printed. Did those turn out the same awesomely random way?

Yes I've got it now. I assume the add-ons came out random. I did mention it to make sure they come out the same.
It's a global setting in Illustrator rather than file by file so I can't believe they changed it.
I think I'd rather they switch if off until it's needed though! At least I know how to do it now - cool.

 

[David Spragg]

I'm thinking it's the way they are plotted his art board. If the inlay art isn't "expanded" and is just clip-pathed its possible as the each Inlay is plotted it shares the same background pattern. I've had this happen with some backgrounds on my chips, too.

Your latest art is going to be the same isn't it?
Do you want them random or not

 

[David Spragg]

I'm thinking it's the way they are plotted his art board. If the inlay art isn't "expanded" and is just clip-pathed its possible as the each Inlay is plotted it shares the same background pattern. I've had this happen with some backgrounds on my chips, too.

And I think it explains the file size.