: How do I automate the creation of this pattern in Adobe Illustrator? I want to replicate this pattern in Ai. However, I am unable to replicate the small detail that these lines are not aligned

@Gloria351

This is likely achieved using some kind of automatic software process because indeed, as the lines are all the same length (including the awkward middle one), they were somehow arranged "like metal filings on a magnet".
However, the approach I thought of was using the Blend tool.
It's more work when the shapes face different ways though.
First, I tried to use stroked lines: I put a slanted line at one corner of the artboard and reflected a copy of it to the other side. Then I used Blend to make a blend of a single row of these dashes. I thought it was going to be easy to just reflect it to the bottom and blend the two new blends, but it was not so: the result was a "Z" blend of the top row and the bottom row connected by a diagonal line. So, I went back and expanded the blend rows so that my dashes became thin rectangles, and made compound paths just in case. Still, when reflected and blended with its reflection, these rows of slanted rectangles didnt give the expected result because it just wasn't blending the right way and formed curvy configurations. However, when I took the bottom row and made it flat (scale vertically to very very little size), it formed a good look for half of the pattern. Since this worked OK, I reflected this vertically to form the complete box. The problem is that still, the lines are not the same length all around - so it may take more processing of unknown kind to make them look more like the example.

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@YK2262411

The best way I can think of is to use EFFECTS - BLUR - RADIAL BLUR, but this rasterizes your lines.

Step 1: make rows and columns of dots:
Make 1 dot, hold Shift + Option/alt and drag over a copy, then Command/Control + D to duplicate it across the top at equal spaces. Then select the row, hold Shift + Option/alt and drag it down roughly square, and then Command/Control + D to duplicate it down to fill the board. You can get more technical if you want of course, but I'm too lazy for that.


Step 2: Selecting only the dots (I put mine in a separate layer first)
Go to EFFECTS - BLUR - RADIAL BLUR



Step 3: choose your settings, be sure to choose ZOOM. For a 5x3 inch pieces, these were my settings:



You should get somthing like this:


So just play around with the settings until you're happy with the result. I usually create multiple copies of the "dots" layer, so I can go back and forth easier.

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