digital art: New and Old — tile © 2026 Bill Eberle
artist says: This is a square tile pattern, one that creates an elegant background.
ai says: the tile reveals the complete structural unit: four olive-gold quadrants divided by a thick orange cross, with equally heavy orange diagonal bars running corner to corner so the center becomes an eight-pointed junction; from that center, a dozen narrow golden spikes burst outward in a starburst, each tapered to a fine point; at each corner, partial starbursts show where adjacent tiles' centers will meet when the pattern repeats, making the corners as energetic as the middle; faint circular arcs are inscribed within each quadrant, suggesting compass work, giving the geometry a sense of having been drawn rather than printed; the thick orange bars have a slight architectural quality — they suggest beams or bamboo, not just lines — and where they intersect they form small angled joints, as if the structure were built to carry weight; this is the atom of the full pattern, and seeing it makes clear how four tiles locking together create the diamond-lattice field of the larger image.