Re: [piecepack] Sample picture of JCD Piecepack by Blue Panther in the album

["Michael Van Biesbrouck" <mlvanbie@...>]

On 1/16/07, Porter235 <porter235@...> wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 January 2007 22:04, Michael Van Biesbrouck wrote:
> > The samples do look nice.  I would like to request that the backs not
> > use the checkerboard back.  Just two lines to mark the squares,
> > possibly with the ace swirl at their interesection, would be fine.
>
> Please see http://www.ludism.org/ppwiki/JcdPiecepack on the wiki which shows
> what the tile back design will be. It should make you happy.

That looks great.  I was still thinking of the older designs.

> I opted for a solid center dot and not the ace swirl, as the swirl is not
> symmetrical along both lines, which means it would still only "half" hide the
> orientation of the tile, which was the major issue with the checkerboard
> design.

I was more concerned about visual effects when tiled on the half-tile,
but your point about the swirl is a good one.

It seems like it will be possible to feel the designs on these pieces,
so we might not have tournament-ready piecepacks yet.  Still, they
look very nice.

Michael