Create a Wavy Lines Effect

I've seen this effect done in a few places lately and I was wondering how to do it. It looks like a row of straight lines were warped and skewed to create a wavy effect. I can't believe that one would have to draw each curved line individually, can anyone offer suggestions on how this effect might be achieved?
Here are some examples:

This is done with Adobe Illustrator, using blends: you select two or more paths, and a Blend will make either a smooth transition or a series of discrete steps between them.

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How do I create a similar line effect to this:

I'm trying to figure out the best way to create a similar line effect to this in illustrator, any ideas?
Thank you!

Draw a black spikes (vertically), option drag a copy, make a blend specified steps.
Copy paste in front, rotate 180 degrees, adjust position
Draw a circle on top, use as a mask.
Rotate all about 30 degrees.

I would like to create a wavy line (the zig zag feature is not exactly what I need here) to outline

I would like to create a wavy line (the zig zag feature is not exactly what I need here) to outline a shape and then fill it with a solid color. Any ideas?
This is approx what I want; however the undulation needs to be more round and less peaked

Barbara,
If you wish to create a gap between the wavy line and the underlying object, you may:
1) Select the wavy line and Object>Expand Appearance;
2) In the Appearance palette flyout tick New Stroke, drag it beneath the original stroke and increase the Stroke Weight as desired and change the colour to white.
If you wish to make the gap transparent, you may:
3) Select the wavy line and Object>Expand Appearance and Ungroup;
4) Select the white path and the underlying object and in the Transparency palette flyout tick Make Opacity Mask with Clip unticked and Invert Mask ticked.
It may be done in other ways, too.

How to create a wavy line with consistent wave regardless of anchor point spacing?

The above image shows my problem. All have the same zig zag effect setting, but due to inconsistent anchor point spacing there is inconsistent waviness. Is there a way to make a wavy line that is not a distortion based on anchor point distances? I'd like all my wavy lines to look nice and consistent like this:
The only reason they're so consistent is the absolute setting has been used but these lines are all straight and have only 2 anchor points, start and finish, hence the wave is consistent. It's harder when the lines are curvy and have a different number and spacing of anchor points.

If you want the fill to follow the boundary, here's one way to do it, more easily done than demonstrated:

How to create a wavy line with the Pen Tool?

Let me start by saying that I am a novice to Adobe CS4, including PS.
I am trying to follow this tutorial: http://www.rnel.net/tutorial/Photoshop/11541 but I can not even get the pen to draw wavvy line. I keep get a straight line. To say the least, I am only able to complete creating the file.
How do I create a wavvy line or lines using the Pen Tool?

Check out this page from the Help Files:
Draw curves with the Pen tool:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0/WS08E4D386-15E9-4dcd-91E6-DF4219CC6D24.html

In InDesign CS5, creating a table with wavy line

I've created a table. I want the vertical column to have a wavy line but I can't get the colors to work. See attached. What am I doing wrong?

You're out of luck. If both boxes were the same colour you could have a wavy stroke between them, but not like that. Try making a standard box with a wavy stroke and filling it, you have the same problem. I think Illustrator can do it, but that doesn't help you with your tables!
You can of course chnge the "fill" colour, that won't help you either.

I create a project w/iMovie and I have two problems: When I try to finalize the project iMovie crashes; when I share to DVD sometimes it crashes also; if I can successfully send it to DVD and then burn a DVD there are wavy lines on the screen. Help!

I create a project w/iMovie and I have two problems: When I try to finalize the project iMovie crashes; when I share to DVD sometimes it crashes also; if I can successfully send it to DVD and then burn a DVD there are wavy lines on the screen. I'm uising photos in my project, not video. Help!

You can split a project in two by doing this.
1) Go to the Project Library View.
2) Select your project, and click FILE/DUPLICATE PROJECT. Give it a name like "your project name - part 1".
3) Do this again. This time name it "your project name - part 2"
4) Open Part 1 for editing. Delete everything in the second half.
5) Open Part 1 for editing. Delete everything in the first half of the project.
At the end you should have your original project, plus the same project in two parts.

Creating wavy lines...

Hi,
Can someone help me find out how to do it this red, wavy lines like on this picture below, maybe some tutorial...any help appreciate. The effect that the are sometimes under and sometimes below other objects is achieved by layers?
Regards

Zeno,
I think that you are 100% correct. I had looked at the attached image, and the red on red fooled my eyes. Blown up in PS, I see exactly what you are talking about. Thanks for pointing this out. I stand corrected.
To the OP, forgive my haste. What I thought I saw was not what your image actually shows under magnification. [Note to self: Magnify the image in PS, before you comment.]
Good luck,
Hunt

I'm getting wavy lines on my stills within my timeline

Hi all, it's me again. I have a new issue. I recently did a project using .jpg images and put them to music. I also used LiveType as name keys to highlight what the different sections were. When I exported the project I used the animation codec, none on field dominance and left it at the 720x480. I needed this quick so I used iDVD. When you play the video on a NTSC monitor you see wavy lines along the edges of the photos (the ones that have black as the border) as well as fine lines either from a brick wall or windows. (I know there is a bit of a zebra effect when there are lines already in the image) So I don't know if I just need to start over and import the images as pict or tiff files or if it's a simple fix by using a different codec and appropriate settings.
Any thoughts, I'm open.
Mike

If it's the black border on your pix that waves then you can try a couple of things. You could use a gaussian blur filter, but I would make it really slight like .02-.05.
You might also try putting a soft edge on the border you created for the jpgs

Changin Scale Causes wavy lines

Premiere Pro CC
I'm working w someone else's original cut getting ready to lay to tape (required by client). To create a zoom effect the other editor keyframed the scaling on quite a few shots. For some reason when it is played in the time line it's causing wavy lines (almost a rolling shutter look) in the back ground of the shot. The lines are always in a bush or tree in the back ground, and not on the main subject, but is very noticeable.
I'm working on a late 2013 Mac Pro w/ up to date Creative cloud.
This type of issue is on multiple projects, and different types of camera footage. There is no distortion on the raw footage, or if the shot is placed in the seq w/out the scaling changes.
Any help would be appreciated.

What happens if you get rid of this line?
params.add(new InterpolationBilinear(8));

Wavy lines in bar charts after converting a Powerpoint to a pdf?

After converting a Powerpoint file to a pdf, the bar charts have wavy lines. The one thing I noticed is that the problem appeared when creating the pdf with Notes showing. If Notes are turned off, then the bars are fine.
Is there a solution for this?

Version is Office 2007.
OS is Windows 7.
Viewer - I think it is Acrobat 9 Pro.
When printing, the option to print notes is chosen. If the option is just slides, the bars in the charts are normal.
To create a PDF, the Powerpoint file is open --> then go to Print --> in the Print dialog box, change the printer name to Adobe PDF and print.

19" Samsung 2nd display has "wavy" lines

I bought a Samsung SyncMaster 906bw as a second display for my 24" iMac. I have it connected via the included VGA cable. The displays resolution is at 1440x900 with 60 hertz.
The problem, is that there are wavy lines continuously moving up the display. It's kind of hard to explain, think of those bars moving up a CRT display when they are filmed on video. I've tried adjusting the resolutions and hertz, but no dice. Any idea what could be the problem? Is it the display, or the video card?
24" iMac Mac OS X (10.4.9) 30 GB iPod Video

This page has a solution:
http://ezinearticles.com/?Lets-Resolve-the-Frequent-Troubles-of--LCD-Monitor-Our selves&id=82112
"Wavy lines on the screen:
In some instances you may encounter wavy lines on the screen. These are usually 1/4" thick and move in a vertical motion. This is caused by a noisy electrical feed from a wall outlet. If you change your vertical refresh rate under display properties to 75Hz this effect should disappear.
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I bought a Samsung SyncMaster 906bw as a second
display for my 24" iMac. I have it connected via the
included VGA cable. The displays resolution is at
1440x900 with 60 hertz.
The problem, is that there are wavy lines
continuously moving up the display.

How to create a multi-line table/column comment

Can someone tell me how to create a multi-line table or column comment?
Apparently, the concatenate operator (||) does not work with the COMMENT statement.
I've searched the Oracle manuals and couldn't find an answer.
COMMENT ON TABLE sometbl IS 'i would like to break up this comment into several lines in order to improve readability'; Effectively, this is what I'd like to do (but it doesn't work):
COMMENT ON TABLE sometbl IS
'i would like to break up ' || CHAR(10) ||
'this comment into several lines ' || CHAR(10) ||
'in order to improve readability' || CHAR(10); Oracle version is 10.2.0.4

Why not just
SQL> create table t (a int)
Createtable successfully completed.
SQL> comment on table t is 'i would like to break up
this comment into several lines
in order to improve readability'
Commenton successfully completed.
SQL> select * from user_tab_comments where table_name = 'T'
TABLE_NAME           TABLE_TYPE COMMENTS
T                    TABLE       i would like to break up
                                 this comment into several lines
                                 in order to improve readability
1 row selected.?

Creating a squiggly line

How do I create a squiggly line in Acrobat Pro X?

Hi,
This is what I'm talking about regarding Special Characters under the Edit Menu.
When you click on it this pops up. I'd like to use this wavy line but don't know how to access it.
I need to make notations in files using a vertical squiggly line.
Thanks,
Paula

Return key not creating a new line when using the horizontal text tool

Going through the adobe after effects 'classroom in a book' examples - when writing a line of single line using the horizontal text tool pressing return does not create the next line underneath, the cursor stays on the same line?
Anybody out there had this problem?

Hi Bill
Thanks for replying!
My OS is windows 7. I think it is the first time I have needed to put more than one line of text in an after effects layer. I am new to CS5.5 - after effects and I'm going through an adobe tutorial 'classroom in a book' series book.
I thought about using a paragraph text box as you suggest but could not find the function in the tools menu.
I have since tried clearing the cache out and restoring default layout but with no joy.
I have used the return key for multiple line text in premier pro and it works perfectly ok.
Cheers,
Alan

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