data tree: diamond pattern

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Permalink Reply by Siemen on August 14, 2015 at 2:31am

Hi Anna,

You can do it with moving & rotating.

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Permalink Reply by Anna Waldon on August 14, 2015 at 3:06am

Thanks. This works. However, I would still like to know how to do it with tree manipulations presuming that original data looks like in the image below. I have in mind trying other patterns in the future.

Permalink Reply by David Kershaw on August 14, 2015 at 2:44am

Another way of

Permalink Reply by David Kershaw on August 14, 2015 at 4:53am

doing this is to duplicate double the wanted points and remove. Here's something that will give you an idea of how to use available tree functions:

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Permalink Reply by Joe Allberry on August 14, 2015 at 8:11am

Some nice list manipulations there, David! 

I hope you don't mind, but I played with your definition a bit to:

- Make the number of lists and lengths match the structure in Anna's post above (and then path mapper it back to the version you had). 

- Make it work for any number of rows, rather than just even numbers.

- Complete the loop by adding the first point to the end of the list.

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