Here is a neat little trick i just discovered. These designs are just done using the Inkscape spiral tool, and a dashed stroke! Once you try it out, be sure to leave a comment showing off your spiral design!
How it is done:
Step 1. draw a spiral using the Inkscape spiral tool, and add more turns to your spiral (i changed from 3 to 20):
Step 2. In the fill and stroke dialog, choose the Stroke style tab. Then bump up the stroke width (i chose 7px), and change the Dashes to something non-solid.
Step 3. Experiment! change the stroke width, dash style, and number of turns of the spiral:
If you want to see the settings required to make the above designs, download the SVG from the openclipart library
inkscape tutorials blog 
Nice! Thanks for this – playing with stroke/fill colours and blur also yields interesting (perhaps even useful!) results. 🙂
LikeLike
Got any examples to share?
🙂
LikeLike
Wow this is great, it’s such a good way to make a unique ornament on posters or logos. I gave it a shot and here’s my spiral!
LikeLike
Awesome trick! I used it as a background for some artwork.
I got about 18 designs out of it and it was tough to narrow down.
http://fav.me/d7jyvrs
LikeLike