Square & triangle nerikomi patterns

I’m continuing testing and learning how nerikomi patterns emerge, and using the clay I’ve mixed.

I'm not using much blue clay in the egg pattern, and while making one of my patterns I messed up and just mixed the clays together, resulting in the white clay in the picture. I decided to build a simple white & blue rectangle pattern.

I’m also making a pattern I made previously, but this time I know the pattern will actually show up since I’m using two different clays (buff & white stoneware). I didn’t like that the triangle shapes in the pattern got bigger when I rolled it into a slab, so I’ll be trying a different method, same as I’m doing for the rectangle pattern.

Once I’ve stacked the pattern high enough, I start to squeeze at the stack from the sides until…

…it starts to look like this. I don’t know how the pattern will change as I squeeze it - if I had squeezed it evenly on all 4 sides instead of squeezing it into a circle, maybe it would remain geometric triangles.

But the resulting pattern that’s revealed once cutting it with a wire still looks very interesting.

I cut them so they'd fit together on a slab, then rolled it out evenly. The pattern is quite different than what I created by this point.

I did the same process with the rectangle pattern.

Since it stayed in a square shape the whole time, the pattern doesn’t change much when I cut it.

And the completed slab has a distinct checkerboard pattern, whereas the other turned abstract as it was processed.