I am trying to emulate this pattern. Seems easy to do if I just create one "shell" and keep repeating it. But that will bring too many objects into the mix. I tried pattern but I can't find a way to overlap the pattern so that the empty spaces are filled with a "shell". Can someone help. Basically this will be the background and will consist of hundreds of these little "shells"
based on your sample, it could be something like this:
Each tile is mirrored to the side and repeated to top or bottom. Of course, there's an almost infinite way to combine in order to create different patterns.
thanks all. will try to take it from here