Random-ish "blend"

I'm trying to take a set of tubes, bent at specific radii, and then create a "sheet" from them. For instance let's say I have 2 different radius tubes, call them 1 and 2. I want to make a sheet out of them, say 50 tubes in a row of type1, then 50 tubes of type 2, and then I want to "blend" the junction, so that, for instance, the tubes might go:

1111111121122122122212222222222

I hope that explains it, I want a semi-random but progressive blend between them.

So I've been looking at sequences, and I think I can do it with some jitter and so on, but it seems onerous. Is there some easier approach that I'm missing (as is often the case)?

Maybe this is a case that is crying out for a script?

Thanks for any pointers.

Dave Johnson

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on February 7, 2011 at 12:36pm

Sounds like Jitter is exactly what you need. Are you not happy with the random transition you get?

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Dave Johnson on February 7, 2011 at 12:45pm

I'm still experimenting, so I can't tell yet if I'm happy with it :-) I thought it prudent to get the question out there early, in case I am being a doofus...

Unless I misunderstand, though, Jitter will shuffle things around uniformly across its domain, rather than blending progressively from one to the other, is that correct?

I'll play around some more and see what I come up with. Thanks, as always, for the prompt reply.

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