How to panelize a grid without similar panels next to each others?

Hi everybody,

I want to panelize a grid randomly without getting similar panels next to each others horizontally and vertically, but everything I tried failed, I would be grateful if someone can help me.

I attached some images and my working files for a better explanation of my problem.

Attachments:

Panels grid.gh, 12 KB
Pannels Grid.3dm, 460 KB

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Permalink Reply by Chris Tietjen on June 26, 2013 at 2:13pm

A quick look at this, but I don't think you have enough unique shapes to accomplish a random patterning without adjacent duplicates. Does it matter to you if the diagonals are duplicates?

Permalink Reply by Marika Colins on June 26, 2013 at 4:20pm

No it's not a problem if the diagonals are duplicates, moreover I don't mind adding shapes, I just want to figure out how to avoid duplicate panels next to each others.

Permalink Reply by Chris Tietjen on June 27, 2013 at 4:39am

Hi Marika,

This might help. It's not truly random but might solve your problem. As long as the number of rows/columns in the square grid is not a multiple of the number of unique shapes it should produce a pattern with no adjacent duplicates.

Attachments:

PanelsgridRev1.gh, 19 KB

Permalink Reply by Marika Colins on June 29, 2013 at 6:18am

Thanks Chris, it's still a lot better than all what I have tried.

the problem here is that there is some kind of visible pattern now.

I now think my problem can only be resolved with a script that compare item in a list based on distance and replace them automatically with a different item, but I don't know how tu use C# or VB :(

Well thanks again for the help Chris.

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