GeoPatterns

Generate beautiful SVG patterns from a string. This is a Python-port of Jason Long's Ruby library.

Installation

GeoPatterns is installable via pip:

$ pip install geopatterns

Usage

Create a new pattern by initializing GeoPattern() with a string and a generator (the result of this string/generator pair is the above image).

>>> from geopatterns import GeoPattern
>>> pattern = GeoPattern('A string for your consideration.', generator='xes')

Currently available generators are:

• hexagons
• overlapping_circles
• overlapping_rings
• plaid
• plus_signs
• rings
• sinewaves
• squares
• triangles
• xes

Get the SVG string:

>>> print(pattern.svg_string)
u'<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" ...

Get the Base64-encoded string:

>>> print(pattern.base64_string)
'PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDov...

In the case of the Base64-encoded string, you can use it in CSS as follows:

body {
  background-image: url('data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz...zdmc+');
}

You can use cairosvg to save the SVG string as a PNG image. First, install cairosvg:

pip install cairosvg

And then run:

>>> import cairosvg
>>> from geopatterns import GeoPattern
>>> pattern = GeoPattern('A string for your consideration.', generator='xes')
>>> cairosvg.svg2png(bytestring=pattern.svg_string, write_to="output.png")

If you just want to visualize the pattern, you can use cairosvg with PIL:

>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>>> from PIL import Image
>>> import cairosvg
>>> from geopatterns import GeoPattern
>>> pattern = GeoPattern('A string for your consideration.', generator='xes')
>>> png = cairosvg.svg2png(bytestring=pattern.svg_string)
>>> image = Image.open(BytesIO(png))
>>> plt.imshow(image)
>>> plt.show()