Nice script
Thanks

Good with Variator -- quick test attached

I may add another scale to make the repeats get smaller
and a choice for the repeats to go to back....

Now added ... several messages below

You just beat me to it...
I've had a script like that lying around on my HD just doing nothing.

A few days ago friend of mine asked for such a function and I thought that I should post it here as it can really be helpful sometimes (one could ask why this function is not native in AI to begin with).

Kinda funny coincidence...

Thank you.

Gareth if look you can set the scale amount and the direction too, or are you talking about a scaling like a wave?

I have made a few small mods to my copy

I can now process multiple objects including groups and compound path

Will publish sometime this week ... thanks for the inspiration!
I will hope you will try my version then, and we can work to a final powerful tool

Here is a beta version of objects-on-paths which has the extra options apart from 'fade'
I should be pleased to hear of suggestions for improvement.
As I said before, obj-on-path and objs-on-paths work well with the Variator script used afterwards :-)

and some clipart along 4 paths

.... and to show another technique. Generate a group by cycling objects.
Then in a second run, use that result along another path.

jitter added to code above - now more or less imitates a random scatter brush :-)

I'm very happy that this script stimulated you a lot.
Sorry if I'm not partecipating in the modding but nowadays I can't.
Thank you for sharing!

and finally with fading of paths and groups ....