Wave patterns using graph mapper with changed density - help :)

Hi everyone,
I’m trying to achieve a similar outcome to the picture attached.
To my understanding it is possible to create the initial waves using graph mapper - that’s not hard.
The question is how to make the waves more “dense” in some parts?

thank you for your help.!

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easiest scenario, you have two curves with same amount of control points

connect their relative control points with lines

distribute an equal amount of points along these lines:

use these points to create new curves:

if the divisions along the lines connecting the control points are equally distributed, then also the tween curves will be equally distributed:

but if you have a higher density of points somewhere, then also the tweened curve will have same density in the same location
like here -through a graph mapper- the first 8 points fall inside the first half of the range (0-to-0.5) which translate in a higher density of “divisions” toward the initial generating curve

this is kind-of the same of lofting the initial two curves and finding in-between isocurves using similar UV distribution

I strongly suggest using the plugin Putterfish if you want to experiment with these concepts, because it has incredible tools that will make your life much much easier :slight_smile:

for instance, putterfish does the above in just one component:


Tween_density.gh (13.2 KB)

Thank you for your detailed response!! :+1: it’s very helpful.