Wallpaper Kaleidoscope

About Wallpaper Kaleidoscope

One wedge of pattern is mirrored and turned around its centre twelve times, and those rosettes sit on a hex lattice so the symmetry runs off every edge.

Part of Tessellation Backgrounds. Runs 12 seconds by default, exports in 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 and 4:5, as MP4 or transparent WebM up to 8K.

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