Tool for subdivision of a shape

[Basti1991]

Hi there,

For a thesis I need to redraw and alter a published figure. This figure consists of a boxlike shape, which is subdivided into many interlocking fragmental shapes of different colours. To create such a subdivided shape with the knife tool or shape builder tool is not completely working to end up with individual fragment shapes that can be coloured …. 
Therefore I wanted to know if there is another tool to create such a vector figure.

The already published figure from 1997 by Peled et al. is attached to get an idea of what I need to recreate. I work with the iPad gut also the desktop Version of affinity designer. 

 

Thanks for your help

 

 

[NotMyFault]

It should not take too much time to redraw from scratch with pen tool / pencil tool.

1. create a new document
2. place the source image 
3. reduce opacity to 50%
4. now start drawing the shapes along the edge using the tool you prefer

plan ahead the sequence of shapes, e.g.

1. green
2. magenta
3. Brown
4. light blue
5. dark blue

this allows to cover part of the edges of lower shapes, so you don’t need to model them exactly.