Morphing Geometry along a curve

Hi there,

I have a set of surfaces in a row that i intend to be able to bend along along in their XY plane. The affect would be something similar to having a trip of paper repeatedly folded and then freely bent into say a curve or S shape etc.

I have been trying to work out how to morph these surfaces along a curve but have come to a dead end. I have tried morphing them as one large geometry and i have tried morphing them each with an individual bounding box but haven't seem to make anything work.

(When I try using separate bounding boxes for them all, it kind of works but some face the wrong way seemingly arbitrarily)

Any advice?

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plane.3dm, 1.4 MB

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Permalink Reply by Shridhar Mamidalaa on March 20, 2015 at 1:13am

Try orienting geometry to curves using perpendicular frames

Permalink Reply by Shridhar Mamidalaa on March 20, 2015 at 1:21am

I guess this is what u r trying to do..

Permalink Reply by Nic McRoberts on March 20, 2015 at 7:34am

Almost, the thing is that this loses the "folded paper" look, as each unit is now perpendicular to the curve.

Thank you though

Permalink Reply by Pieter Segeren on March 20, 2015 at 9:18am

Hi Nic, have you tried/heard of the Jackalope plugin? I tried this using the Flow component, which seems to perform okay, though there are slight deviations in the measurements, it may be accurate enough for your application.

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