# Getting undesirable vertices when importing SVG from illustrator

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**Category:** Coding Questions
**Created:** [November 3, 2019, 7:54pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/getting-undesirable-vertices-when-importing-svg-from-illustrator/15205 "2019-11-03T19:54:22Z")
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### Author: ![jeykech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e47774/32.png) [@jeykech](https://discourse.processing.org/u/jeykech)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2019, 1:34pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/getting-undesirable-vertices-when-importing-svg-from-illustrator/15205/12 "2019-11-04T13:34:45Z")

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the patterns are called “zellij” and there is a complex theory behind it. what you see here it is done manually. to start you can visit my behance page: [https://www.behance.net/gallery/47885953/Zellij-obsession-Alphabet](https://www.behance.net/gallery/47885953/Zellij-obsession-Alphabet)

but you can have similar results using the “Hankin’s pattern”, Daniel Shiffman did a tutorial on islamic star pattern, you can see it here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ6pMLp\_IaI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ6pMLp_IaI)

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