Hi Dr. Sassi,

Thank you so much for your quick response.

I'll keep looking into it.

Best wishes,

Jef

Hi,

I'm having difficulties with modeling a pattern in a shape and controlling the scaling of the different elements of this pattern.

This is the pattern I would like to repeat inside of a shape:

The shape:

Since the shape narrows down towards the sides the pattern doesn't fit.

You can see that the spheres of the pattern intersect there where the pattern gets too narrow. I would like scale down the spheres where necessary, preferably in steps so just a few sizes of spheres are necessary to build this shape.

I've tried many things but until now unsuccessful. The shape I show here is build using an underlaying surface (hidden) that is deformed with an FFD deformer and where the spheres are distributed across using a cloner object. This way the spheres themselves do not deform. I thought of using a step effector on the cloner objects but until now is does not give me the wanted result/control I am looking for. Also the FFD deformer is not ideal, since the repeated pattern's shape gets distorted. I would like to scale it as uniformly as possible.

Can you help me in finding a better modelling method?

I hope my post is clear, otherwise feel free to let me know what I should clarify.

Thank you in advance.

Jef