dotted surface

[iMac1943]

instead of having a black square or circle I need the square filled with dots (of the same size). How do I do that? And how can I define the size of the circles?

The file attached has small dots, I need much bigger dots.

Please help

[Gabe]

Hi @iMac1943 ,

I'm not really sure what you want to create. What you attached it's a white square with dots. If you need to create that pattern it's quite simple. You will have to create a circle, set a fill colour and create a symbol from it. Then duplicate it horizontally as many times as needed to fit the width of your square, arrange them, group them all together. Duplicate the group, move it vertically, offset it, group the 2 groups together and you have a pattern. You can then duplicate as many times as needed to fill the shape of your choice. 

Thanks,

Gabe. 

[iMac1943]

Yes, that's the way I was thinking too. I think I remember from Illustrator (long time ago...) that there was a way to do that. I'll follow your advice.

Thank you!

[gdenby]

Another approach. Use dotted lines. Set any point size, set spacing, set phase, shape lines an dots will adjust. Use expand stroke to get individual objects if you need them.

Dot Arrays.afdesign

[Aammppaa]

Or, if it isn't important that it is vector… use a bitmap fill.

 

Affinity Dot Bitmap Pattern.afdesign

[iMac1943]

I made it in Illustrator and imported in Affinity. I hope that in the near future this will be able in AF.

[gdenby]

I'm perplexed. You were asking about how to fill a square w. dots of different sizes. But the next image was what appears to be an 8-bit dither of a fade across a gradient. AFAIK, AD will do it, tho not all pixellated. I suppose AP would do it also, but I wouldn't know how to force an 8 bit dither.

[MikeW]

1 hour ago, gdenby said:

I'm perplexed. You were asking about how to fill a square w. dots of different sizes. But the next image was what appears to be an 8-bit dither of a fade across a gradient. AFAIK, AD will do it, tho not all pixellated. I suppose AP would do it also, but I wouldn't know how to force an 8 bit dither.

Kinda confuses me a little as well.

Not at a computer right now, but can APhoto create a halftone from a gradient? Cause that is what the image appears to be (that is, a halftone from a gradient). If you notice, it has zero perspective which there should be.

For AI, one can get a plug-in from Astute Graphics that creates vector half-tones from gradients. I have it, it's great. (And they have approached Serif about the API for their plug-ins).

For CorelDraw, there is also what was a paid-for, inexpensive add-on, that does the same thing. A bit slower than the Astute solution. It's now included in CD with the latest version.