On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 20:06:37 -0600, John Keith wrote:

On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 20:22:02 -0400, Goedjn wrote:


STiff bristle-broom, for the rainbow-pattern.

I know what a rainbow looks like (duh) but can you point me to
a picture of how this mught be repeated in a pattern?

Maybe I should have called it a scale-pattern.
All the ceilings in my father's house were done
by a guy on stilts walking around stabbing a brush
into the mud and giving it a bit more than a
half-turn around one corner, moving sideways almost
2 brush-widths, and repeating. When you finish a row,
you move down almost one brush-width, center the pivot
corner between two arcs of the previous row, and
continue in the opposite direction. I don't remember
what they did to make the edges work out right, but
the field ends up looking kind of like this:

www.goedjn.com/sketch/scaly.gif

--Goedjn