Bending tubes with gradients

[JimR]

I often have trouble bending shapes with nice gradients, typically a tube on technical concept drawings

I'm using a workaround of adding lines on top of each other with gradually brighter colours feathered but it's not really elegant and there are issues at the end of the lines.

How would you this if I want to keep the nice gradients and the tube needs bending?


Bending_shapes.xar

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JimR