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!

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!