Sort of arraycrv with incremental scaling and constant spacing

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on April 18, 2014 at 12:09pm

Quite tricky, I'm not sure if I managed to solve it to your satisfaction.The more curvy the curve (relative to the size of the objects you're putting on it) the less accurate an answer you'll get.

The basic idea is:

1. Measure the width of all the objects: {Wa, Wb, Wc, Wd,...,Wz}
2. Define the gap size G.
3. Duplicate G until we have one less than the number of objects: {G,G,G,...,G}
4. Weave the width and gap sizes into a single list {Wa,G,Wb,G,Wc,G,Wd,...,G,Wz}
5. Use that list as the dash pattern input.
6. Orient the objects from their current positions to the dash segments.

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David Rutten

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Permalink Reply by Steve Workman on April 18, 2014 at 12:15pm

Thanks, David. At the very  least it gives me some logic to  begin with, and a direction. 

Really appreciate it.

Steve