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In my short film about fungi, I need lots of spores randomly floating around the scene. So I made one original spore with a Follow Path constraint targeting a Bezier curve. This would allow it to be animated using the Offset Factor in the constraint panel. I thought I’d then make copies by writing a script to duplicate the original spore. Not so easy! It took forever to get it right. One each try, the spore copy was displaced somewhere on the screen and not lined up at the start of the curve copy as it should be. This is what I had to do (also documented in the script file): Steps: 1. Select the spore and flight path for duplication 2. Duplicate the spore and flight path objects 3. Disable the Follow Path constraint 4. Centre copied spores at world origin (0, 0, 0) 5. Move the duplicates to a new location 6. Enable the Follow Path constraint on the copied spore I’ve attached the blend file and the python script. The spores are now ready for animation. Next step - maybe I’ll try to animate using a script. I’m using Blender 4.5.

I asked ChatGPT to provide a Charge field description of a Tornado.ChatGPT did so. After which ChatGPT wrote. If you’d like, I can also give you: * A **diagram-style explanation** * A **side-by-side comparison** of Mathis vs mainstream tornado formation * A **step-by-step animation logic** for Blender, if you want to model a tornado using his charge-field ideas Me, An excellent suggestion, I agreed to a Blender python tornado model, understood to be charge-field inspired motions and not true charge field physics. I've been working with it over the last week. The animation works, at least on my machine, but the particles are still moving too fast to track.

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I’m working on a film about microorganisms such as fungi and bacteria. The underground portion of a fungus is composed of hyphae which are single strands of connected cells. A large grouping of hyphae is called a mycelium. The first image is of a mycelial mat that I did in Blender with no coding. But just for the fun of it, I tried to reproduce this entirely in code. Full disclosure – I had some help from VS Code Copilot AI. The Blend file is attached along with a screenshot of the results. Cool things left to do with a script: taper the ends of each hyphal strand and create septae (cross walls) to divide the hyphae into distinct cells. Just run the script to generate the sidebar operator and make some fungus!