polygon center point / lists

hello everyone,

I'm using a script i found online to panel a surface with hexagons. Everything is fine, however i want to add on to the script. This particular script creates a hexagonal panelling between two surfaces and lofts the hexagons with one another.. what i want to do is find the center point of the hexagons on the second surface (which i figured out how to do) scale each hexagon by 0.5, and move the scaled hexagons normal to the surface. Finally, i want to loft the original hexagons on the surface with the moved,scaled hexagons...

the problem i am having is with the lists (i think). I have 108 hexagons, and so i find 108 center points, and so 108 'normal' vectors, however when i put that into the move component, not only do i get extra hexagons.. but also they aren't moving on the normal vector. However, when i put the hexagons through the list item.. and go through each hexagon one by one.. they work fine :s

Regarding the scale, i get even much more unpredictable results, the hexagons aren't scaling with their center points, (even though I'm plugging them into the scale component).

that was a mouthful i know,,

Please download the rhino file and the definition from this link

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/62809599/Honeycomb2surfaces.zip

.. any help would be much appreciated!!

best,

Mohammed

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Permalink Reply by lucas cañada on March 14, 2012 at 5:20pm

Loock at the parameter viewer and see there is no the same structure in every input. Hope helps ;)

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Honeycomb2surfaces offset curves_1.gh, 12 KB

Permalink Reply by Mohammed Makki on March 15, 2012 at 12:47am

Thanks very much Lucas for your reply, and for helping with the definition.

Can you please explain the logic behind the data sets that were not allowing it to work. flattening the curves created one data set, however grafting it then created another.

Permalink Reply by Chris C on March 15, 2012 at 1:02am

Lucas is the king of hexagons!

Permalink Reply by lucas cañada on March 15, 2012 at 8:30am

Hi Chris!! Nice to here you! Ill like to be the king of something but my wife works with me and my home...has a Queen ;)

Permalink Reply by Chris C on March 15, 2012 at 6:42pm

Fantastic! So does mine, so I understand. Good to see you continuing to give your amazing advice my friend. It's truly a good thing you do.

Permalink Reply by lucas cañada on March 15, 2012 at 3:45pm

Hi Mohammed! it didnt work because data were not in the same path to could intersect. i cheked the lists with a list item and the items were in the correct possition but the only thing were the path structure. When ive flattened the two lists and grafted i create a new lists with the same path in every list. Hope helps ;)

Permalink Reply by Mohammed Makki on March 16, 2012 at 2:31pm

perfect!

you've been a great help Lucas :)))))))

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