How Do I The Pattern in the Chevy Bowtie?

[G.O.Productions]

Hello, I was wondering what the best way is to go about creating the inside pattern of the logo.

Thanks!

[Tiku_67 (Timo Kulmala)]

The surface looks like it’s made of tiny pyramids. I’d create a bumpmap and apply that as displacement.

[Stan_Pancakes (Stanislav Blinov)]

Carve repetitive shapes on a plane?

Suppose that I want an array of the shape in the second image on a plane as in the first image. [damn1] [damn2] I could carve placeholders (squares) on the plain using loop-cuts and subdivisions. But I don’t know how I can put diagonal lines for each square, other than manually creating each edges, which seems too repetitive. I could create arrays of the second image and place them on top of the plain, but then the two things are actually disconnected objects and there are duplicate edges. I…

[BigBlend]

Here is a more detailed image. You could just do a bump map of it.

[BigBlend]

I did a small test with tiles to see if it could reproduce the likeness.