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I would like to take a string of spheres of varying sizes, line them up into a string so that they are just overlapping, and then joint them together in such a way that their faces merge into each other so that it is difficult to tell where the joins are. As if you'd take a handful of wax balls and melted them into each other and had one continuous surface.

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Is this possible do do in blender?

I want to make a Princess Bubblegum ponytail\braid effect.

This will be 3D printed.

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Metaballs are probably what you need, even though it won't give a very good topology:

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When you're good, if you want a better resolution, go into the Object Data panel and lower down the Resolution value. Then go into the header menu > Object > Convert To > Mesh. To give it a better topology and lower down the faces count, go into Object Data > Remesh and try for example the Quad option:

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  • $\begingroup$ How do I do what you're doing in the animation? $\endgroup$
    – Aaargh Zombies
    Commented Sep 4, 2021 at 16:15
  • $\begingroup$ a magician can't tell his secrets!!! These are metaballs actually (Shift A > Metaballs). I just duplicated one... $\endgroup$
    – moonboots
    Commented Sep 4, 2021 at 16:17

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