Concentric water ripples

[zaedrus]

I'm a fairly rudimentary user, so I just started to draw the ripple profile (large in the middle, diminishing toward the outer reaches) using the arc tool. Made sure it was a surface, and then did a Follow Me around a circular path. Then I have all these lines from where the different arcs touched that I have to hide... not a clean approach.

Any ideas?

Much appreciated!

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[d12dozr]

Triple-click to select all > Right click > Soften Edges, and play with the slider and check boxes until it looks good.

[honoluludesktop]

Anyone, isn't this better done as an semi transparent image?

[Gaieus]

The problem is that when you connect those series of arches, they will still be individual entities "divided" by those connecting endpoints. Do what Marcus says - soften the whole surface to get rid of them OR weld those arches into one, continuous curve before doing the Follow me operation. Here is a simple but invaluable plugin that can do it.
http://www.smustard.com/script/Weld

[zaedrus]

Thanks everyone!

[TIG]

Here's an example using weld.rb to make a sinuous 'curve' of tangential arcs; then using ExtrudeEdgesByLathe.rb to sweep that curve around 360 degrees, with 72 segments >> 7000+ facets ! so several minutes to process...

[Richard]

I really need to use more rubies! I use not one!

[pilou]

@unknownuser said:

I really need to use more rubies! I use not one!

I can't believe that!