As your byline says, Chris, "your intelligence will never compensate for my stupidity"....
Having said that, can I have your in response "for dummies?"
@chris fullmer said:
I think you could make a component clone itself along a curve, but you must know the curve beforehand, and you would have to be able to define it mathematically. The positions of the clones would have to be determined by the mathematical definition of the curve.
Chris