assigning Different colors to each sweep stroke

[Jim Scott]

Try this: Use a Color Shader in the color channel of the material. Place the Sweep into a Fracture object (set its mode to Explode Segments and Connect), add a Random effector to it with Color Mode on, and experiment with the Blending Mode.

And if you don’t mind sharing it, I would like to see your project file.

Hope this helps.

[Brian Jones]

or as Jim said, Sweep into a Fracture (Explode and Connect) then use a Variation shader. It’s also possible to use a Color Shader (with the Random effector still) inside a Variation shader…

[Ranveer Singh]

here is the link to file and the reference picture of the look I am trying to achieve.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1gy5E2KtqvnjLU0e9AiFRS_7v03eU_QNv

[Jim Scott]

Thanks for the project file. Looking at your original screenshot I couldn’t understand what you were doing with the Turbulence modifier, and the dynamics tags on the cloner and sphere. I guess you had been, or were planning to, experiment with using an emitter and particles with turbulence to generate motion for the tracer?

Looking at your example image, I’ll play around when I get a chance and see if I can come up something similar.

[Brian Jones]

the example looks not like a traced bunch of lines but very few (or only one) doing a ‘spirograph’ sort of pattern but spherical. If it’s only one line (or few) the color could just be a linear gradient along the length

[Ranveer Singh]

I wanted some of the lines to go diagonal, that’s the reason I put turbulence and made them dynamic.

[Jim Scott]

According to the help menu, modifiers (like Turbulence) generally only work with particles, but can be used with dynamics if included in the Forces list. As you have it set up, Turbulence isn’t doing anything in your project, which can be confirmed by disabling or removing it. Unless I am mistaken, the diagonal movement is resulting from the dynamics tags alone, and is being controlled by the Follow Position setting in the cloner’s tag.

Just as a jumping off point, I tried cloning a circular sweep onto a sphere, and simply duplicating and rotating the setup. There are many possibilities with the sphere type, and the distribution choices of the cloner. Here’s one:

[Steve Bentley]

Hey Jim, since turbulence only works on the particles, could you not then “trace” those disturbed particles to get the sweepable paths required and wouldn’t those paths now be turbulated (is that a word)?

[Jim Scott]

Yes, you are right about that Steve. Using particles and turbulence would generate the motion necessary for a tracer, but I think Ranveer was trying to do it with sweeps around a sphere to get the look he wanted. I haven’t played around with trying to get particles to make a spherical path, but it might be doable with attractor and rotator modifiers. Earlier today I did a little experimenting with a turbulence modifier added to the Forces list of a Rigid Body tag, but I couldn’t get it to do anything. If you are familiar with that, and have any tips, I’d be glad to hear them.

Since you wrote it, “turbulate” is now a word, regardless of what any silly old dictionary may say. I know exactly what you mean by it, so feel free to use it. As Humpty Dumpty supposedly said, “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”

[Steve Bentley]

Humpty was a politician? (Now that I’ve said that, I have a memory of Carroll depicting Humpty in the shape of Churchill or some other parliamentarian)

I haven’t tried this but once you get the traces from the particles can’t you feed those into the sweep object to be the path? Or, because it’s one emitter for the particles, does the sweep see the traces as one giant path made of all the traces? (hmm what would that look like?)