# Make sine wave around a circle?

Ok I found this question with no answers - Sine wave on a ring and How do I make a curve in the shape of a simple wave form (sine)? to make a sine curve. I need what the first question asked for -

I now have the sine wave curve, but I need it to go around in a circle. How can I achieve this?

EDIT:

• Glad you fixed it, but.. I've been trying to reproduce this.. and can't! I'm curious about how you managed to lose the axis option? – Robin Betts Jan 27 at 18:20
• old version! of blender – skyguy Jan 28 at 20:48

Via the UI:

Simple Deform... modifier.

for any sine wave with a whole number of cycles, created aligned to world axes

• Bend
• 360 degrees
• In the wave's Object-Space axis of amplitude.

Simple script

Translate the circle primitive into a sine wave. The primitive circle distributes the verts x, y coords in a circle.

The z coordinate is adjusted to oscillate in a sine wave.

import bpy
from math import sin, pi
verts = 128 #  verts per circle
freq = 16   #  how many phases of sin wave
amp = 0.1   # amplitude of wave
# angle per vert
apv = freq * 2 * pi / (verts)

context = bpy.context