Here’s a brief description of the sample patterns I’ve enclosed. Note that they’re stored as Finder clipping files; the Finder doesn’t currently know how to display GX graphics, but you can still install them by dragging them on top of the pattern display panel in GX Desk Control’s configuration window.
The ones marked like this† use GX transfer modes to achieve effects that depend on your choice of background colour.
• Bevelled Bricks†—a pattern of rectangular bricks with nicely bevelled edges. The bricks use your chosen background colour, while the bevels are drawn with fixed shades of this colour. For best results, choose a background colour of around 50-60% intensity.
• Empty (BG colour only)—an “empty” GX shape. All you see is the background colour you chose.
• Flapjacks—supposed to look a little like the brick pattern on the floor of this café in town. Without lines to demarcate the bricks, the effect was quite unexpected.
• Hue-Shifted Tiles†—the background uses your currently-selected background colour, while the squares use two other colours with hues derived from this colour. Thus, the effect depends on your choice of background colour. Note that if you choose a pure black, white or grey as your background colour, the squares disappear.
• Sky Shower—a sky-blue background with some slanted white rectangles raining down. (Well, I think it looks pretty.)
• Time Tunnel—a set of 30 concentric circles in an exponential sequence of sizes, with the background colour filling the gaps. Should scale up cleanly to fill most screens.
• Translucent Triangles (loose) and Translucent Triangles (tight)—an interesting use of additive drawing mode in CMYK space. Note what happens to the colours of the triangles where they overlap. There are two versions of this pattern, with different spacing. Warning: the tightly-spaced version can be very slow to draw on a 24-bit display.
• Two-Tone Triangles†—an alternating triangular pattern, using the background colour and a muted variation thereof. Use a highly-saturated background colour to get the best effect.
• Wacky Polka Dots†—the background uses your currently-selected background colour, while the polka dots are drawn in the complement of this colour, with the opposite saturation, and a more moderate brightness. Thus, the effect depends on your choice of background colour: a muted background will produce saturated dots, and vice versa.
• Wavy Tiles—an intricate pattern of curves. Bears a vague resemblance to some paving stones I saw on the sidewalk in town.
• Wood Strips—inspired by the wood panelling in my living room.
