Populate boundary with points???

Hi,

I am fairly new to grasshopper. Currently, I am trying to populate a boundary/region (I dont know what an appropriate term would be) with points that I can later use some attractors on to get different densities of points within the region. Can anyone point me to a tutorial or have a suggestion on how to go about doing this?

The region is super simple. Just a rectangle inside of a rectangle. I don't think an image is really that necessary but i attached one anyway.

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Permalink Reply by djordje on May 6, 2013 at 2:38pm

Hi Stanley,

Use the "Populate 2D" component. Plug your rectangle into it's "R" plug.

Permalink Reply by STANLEY SCHULTZ on May 6, 2013 at 2:41pm

Thanks for a fast reply. Yea I tried that, but it populates the entire rectangle. I the space between the 2 rectangles populated.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on May 6, 2013 at 2:43pm

Create a single surface (PlanarSrf) out of both rectangles, then use Populate Geometry on the trimmed surface.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by djordje on May 6, 2013 at 2:46pm

Terribly sorry for that.
Try this:

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Permalink Reply by STANLEY SCHULTZ on May 6, 2013 at 2:48pm

great, thank you both.

Permalink Reply by STANLEY SCHULTZ on May 6, 2013 at 4:34pm

Ok, so i am obviously terrible with this. I followed djordie's advice and i now have the proper area populated but i cant figure out how get get different densities with the point through attractor geometry.

Any suggestions?

Thanks again for all your help.

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