How would you create this kind of pattern?

[femkeblanco]

I thought I would try to crowdsource some ideas on how to create this manually.  The plan is to choose the most script-friendly ideas and potentially create it with scripting.  Thanks in advance. 

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

Manually: a single line with a zig zag and 3 transform effects.

Edit: better screendump:

[femkeblanco]

Thanks @Ton Frederiks.  That's nice. 

What about doing it without effects?

[Ton Frederiks]

femkeblanco wrote: What about doing it without effects?

That would be interesting, but I am not smart enough for that 🙂

[pixxxelschubser]

You can try to use the zigzag effect (Scripting Live Effects here from @m1b) one time in script and then expand and duplicate and afterwards transform how often you want.

Or you create the sine wave also with your script, for example:

Sine Curve.jsx by Shanfan.

[m1b]

If you took the scripting Live Effects approach, you could probably apply the same effects that Ton applied in his example.

[Kurt Gold]

You scripting guys are sometimes really ungrateful. Effects, as Ton suggested, actually are scripts and they work very well.

There is probably a good reason why it has to be done with Javascripts or some other script technologies. And I'm curious about the reasons in detail why it has to work that way.

[pixxxelschubser]

Haha.

😄

@femkeblanco 

Bad boys, bad boys whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?

[femkeblanco]

I'm afraid I can't give you a reason (at least not a good reason). When I began learning scripting, it was about the end goal. Now, it's more about the process itself. If it can be done by scripting, I want to do it by scripting. 

And I am very grateful to all. 

[Kurt Gold]

femkeblanco, I hope it was at least a little bit obvious that I was just kidding.

Unfortunately, sometimes I realise that kidding apparently is a discipline that I do not master very well.

Anyway, no offense intended.

[CarlosCanto]

no offense taken

attn: a scripting guy

[femkeblanco]

No offence taken - and thanks!

[tromboniator]

I realise that kidding apparently is a discipline that I do not master very well.

By @Kurt Gold

I think you do kidding very well; sometimes you do subtlety even better!

[CarlosCanto]

I must agree with Peter