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I would like to represent the movement of some parts of a molecule and divide it by criteria, I lready have the data and think I should use a driver to represent closely the distance I measured, while linking each sphere to each other with some sort of elastic ribbon.

As I am still new with blender, I do not know all options I have, I already tried armatures but have failed terribly, as it has way too parameters for me.

My problematic represented in images : distance measurment

more points

link without constraints

*Edit I would like the distance to be visible (black bars) but if only the red dots linked by green lines are there, it's still very much what I could use.

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  • $\begingroup$ can you show us how your data looks like? $\endgroup$
    – Chris
    Commented Jun 24, 2021 at 4:45
  • $\begingroup$ It really is just a time-distance graph, I don't want this "simulation" to be exact, just to globally represent the tendencies I've analysed@Chris $\endgroup$
    – user126526
    Commented Jun 24, 2021 at 8:56

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If you only want to move in one direction (e.g. y direction) you can

  1. create two UVSpheres and 1 cylinder

  2. move the cylinder in edit mode in that way, that the origin point is in the left UVSphere

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  1. Select the right circle vertices of the cylinder and press CTRLH and select "Hook to new object".

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  1. add an object constraint to your new created empty from 3) like this:

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and choose the right sphere as target.

Now you can move the right Sphere on the y direction and the cylinder/connection will follow along.

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  • $\begingroup$ Wow, thank you very much for your detailed answer, I'll test this as soon as I can and come back to you $\endgroup$
    – user126526
    Commented Jun 24, 2021 at 11:46
  • $\begingroup$ Ok the hook seem to be enough, I linked both ends to the respective sphere, and will try to network it out without making a mess. Thanks again $\endgroup$
    – user126526
    Commented Jun 24, 2021 at 14:01
  • $\begingroup$ Please check the checkmark left to my answer if the answer helped you. Thank you. $\endgroup$
    – Chris
    Commented Jun 24, 2021 at 14:09

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