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Development of the plugin is being done by Kent Barber and you can follow it's development at @kentbarber. Available for Cinema 4D R20 through to Cinema 4D 2023 on both macOS and Windows. https://plugins4d.gumroad.com/l/flowgraph

Some fun : ) 30_Heart(MG).c4d

The point of my post was future shock. 20 years ago, I never thought a robot could never walk on 2 legs. 10 years ago, I never thought they could bring dead actors back to life or de-age them to their 20's. 5 years ago, I never thought software could create amazing art. 2 years ago, I never thought an AI system could write a term paper. My key takeaway from the AI/robotic videos is that AI researchers are beginning to decode how living creatures "perceive" themselves. Is that the first step to independent sentience? Not sure, but the potential repercussions of that research many years down the road do give me cause for concern. So, rather than get caught up in the amazing developments in robots and AI, I keep wondering what will the next 10 years bring? I do find the union of AI and robotics to be very interesting and an opportunity for the betterment of mankind. I am even more hopeful about AI, nanorobots and medicine. I also think it will be great day when all vehicles are self-driving and under the same control of an AI traffic system. Imagine a world with no traffic jams and highway accidents. Imagine what the interiors of cars would be like in that world? Would they look more like small living rooms with couches so you can take a nap because you know you will get to your destination completely safe in all weather conditions? That would be awesome! So as with all technology, there is an upside potential that we are all eager to buy into. Unfortunately, all technology also has a downside. When you look out 10, 15 or 20 years, there is something to be concerned about when you combine AI and the internet in an uncontrolled way --- particularly if that AI system can so flawlessly replicate human speech, human language, human appearance in that distant future. I do agree with your point about how an AI system is determined based on what information it is fed. Feed it hateful writings and it will give you hate speech. Feed it sci-fi apocalyptic visions and it will give you a gloomy prediction on the future. What data the AI is based on is something that will be hard to control so it is hard to say that all AI systems will be benign or only developed by people who want to serve mankind. It would be pretty naive to think that global bad actors/dictators will be staying out of the AI pool forever. My concern is simple over our future in 20, 15 or even 10 years from now: What are the dangers of combining a malevolent AI system with the technological advancements in replicating human image and voice and then putting that combination on the internet to give it a global platform as well as access to a massive source of information? Do you really think that we can control the deployment of such a system that NEVER becomes a major "influencer" on social media over the next 10 years? What would your reaction be today if you find out that someone you trust and follow on YouTube today was not actually a person but a program? I cannot say with any level of certainty that will NOT happen in 10 to 20 years. Also, that reach may not be just through social media platforms. It could be more personal like text and email or posts to your favorite blogs. Today's phishing schemes are getting better and better.... think of how sophisticated they will be in 10 years if directed by an AI system that has absorbed and processed all available information on you from the internet. People will be fooled. They will be scammed for money (a given), but even more frightening is if they are tricked to give the AI system more access to information that bad actors can then use to harm society (e.g., access to that highway system keeping cars safe on the road). Also, identity theft takes on a whole new meaning in 10 years should the software be able to replicate you flawlessly doing whatever it desires and then hack that video into a security camera system. Yea....all this great technology that makes us jump up and scream "what a time to be alive!" also has a downside that "may" reveal itself in the distant future (or sooner). Thus, my future shock. Dave

Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you on your suggestion. It was just a comment on the specific way he chose to tackle the effect. Anyway here's my try. I felt so frustrated that most of the deformers I wanted to use did not support for fields... Not really proud of this since I had to fake it. @georgedsee I left the Correction Deformer as a proof of how I used it to create the spline path. It's completely useless, you can delete it. The carpet looks like it retracts a bit in the end. That's because the actual sweep spline turned out to be a bit longer than the actual carpet length... Talking about luck 'cause I just eyeballed the unrolled length... You can trim it by one or two segments but don't forget to also trim the animation paths also. I also changed the rolled spline to Adaptive Intermediate points for better distribution. Why did you use the MoSpline? I figured out it had no actual consequence in the scene. I not sure for the Delay effector either... to my setup it has no useful effect either. Now the problem is that the rolled part remains at constant radius instead of shrinking. I'll have one last look at it this evening. roll (unravel).c4d

Two days after the Utility Splines Collection Launch Party the new Season started. Chris got carried away with the new capsules and forgot to mention when the season would start.

Some circular cutting 🙂 29_Laser_cut(XP+Cmotion+Dyn).c4d

Some cracking : ) 26_Floor_crack(MG).c4d

Card dealing 🙂 Card_Dealing.zip

Radar thing 17_Radar_sweep(MG+XP).c4d

A chain 🙂 12_Chain(MG+CA+XP).c4d

Let's start with some MoGraph. Simple airplane route prototype with movable start and end location. Intermediate point is adjustable too. 01_Airplane_route(MG+constrains).c4d