How to create this texture?

[Donfarese]

Here is a look I'm trying to get, I need to have a bunch of stripes that would follow the objects shape. I thought maybe I would do this with VrayDistanceTex, but had no luck. The attached image is done in photoshop using stroke with gradient. Any ideas?

[M.Max]

There are 2 options that come to my mind now :
you can plug that distance map into output map and play with the curve by adding more points and move them up and down.
or you can plug that map into gradient ramp using source mode to re map it to new gradient .

[Donfarese]

There are 2 options that come to my mind now :
you can plug that distance map into output map and play with the curve by adding more points and move them up and down.
or you can plug that map into gradient ramp using source mode to re map it to new gradient .

Hmmm.... Okay I'm going to try that. Thanks

[super gnu]

+1 for gradient ramp in mapped mode with distance tex as source, ive used it to produce very similar effects. If only gradient ramp wasnt so fiddly with that tiny little gradient interface.