Range Vs Series

Hi all,

I have two script where one of them is simpler(the original) than the other(modified). I only added range component but i don't understand what ranged component actually did here in my script. I am really still green at GH, hope someone can help me out here.

Help will be very much appreciated. thanks =]

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Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on October 12, 2017 at 2:34pm

Range can be considered as a division. It divides a domain by a number of steps. So a domain of 0 to 5 with 5 steps will equal (0,1,2,3,4,5). No matter the number of steps the result values will always be a division of steps existing only between the start and end of the range domain.

Series can be considered as a multiplication. It multiplies a step size by a number values to be in the series starting at a specified start number. So if the first number in the series is 0 and the step size is 1 and the number of values in the series is 5 then the results will be (0,1,2,3,4). But if you change the step size to say 2 then the results will be (0,2,4,6,8) so it is not bound to a domain like Range - it is more an aggregation of step sizes.

Permalink Reply by Xuchang Zhao on October 19, 2017 at 8:50am

I see, it makes much more sense. Thanks Michael.

Following up,I have used range component to make twisting tower with scaling as well(please see attachment). However i was wishing to do 3 times where at the middle of the tower, the floor plate area gets smaller and it gets bigger again at the top. How should I do that ?

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