Concentric water ripples
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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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Triple-click to select all > Right click > Soften Edges, and play with the slider and check boxes until it looks good.
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Anyone, isn't this better done as an semi transparent image?
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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 -
Thanks everyone!
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Here's an example using
weld.rbto make a sinuous 'curve' of tangential arcs; then usingExtrudeEdgesByLathe.rbto sweep that curve around 360 degrees, with 72 segments >> 7000+ facets ! so several minutes to process...
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I really need to use more rubies! I use not one!
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