group surfaces with same areas

Hi there,

my situation:

.I have n number of panels with different dimensions

.I would like to schedule all the panels according to the area (20 panels 2sqm, 30 panels 3 sqm,...

I sorted the area and I manually filtered with equality component the panels, but I would like to avoid to review manually each value, since changing the number of panels the value change.

thanks in advance!

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panels area.JPG, 122 KB

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Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on June 15, 2017 at 11:04am

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/set-member-index-example-...

Permalink Reply by paul piciorul on June 16, 2017 at 6:36am

yes, it works, but I would like o select a single group of panels using the index in the data tree:

using index 0 I should select the four panels with the same area

using index 1 the two panels with the same area.

is it retrieve branch?

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select index.3dm, 208 KB
select index.gh, 8 KB

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on June 16, 2017 at 7:39am

Replace the distance values here with your area values, and replace the square grid points with your panels.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SQiKLliHuiw/T5IyPWtwhOI/AAAAAAAAALc/ZuYWe...

Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on June 16, 2017 at 7:47am

What is the 'DomComp' component in your example?

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on June 16, 2017 at 7:52am

it is deconstruct domain, the screenshot is old and that component used to be called "decompose domain"

Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on June 16, 2017 at 8:13am

Interesting... I can sorta see how it works in your example, though would need to wire it up to be sure. Is that code available?

Not so clear how to apply that technique to this question though? As always, code would help.

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on June 16, 2017 at 9:53am

"code would help" - code is there via screenshot

It is applicable because by using domains you wont need to round (maybe you have a tolerance which determines that a panel is still "the same") so you would use sub domains, I'll wire one up later but am a bit busy at the moment. In the meantime here is an alternative to the rounding method.

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sort area.gh, 8 KB

Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on June 16, 2017 at 10:03am

"code would help" - code is there via screenshot

Ah, come on Michael, you know what I meant. I'm not going to bother from a screen shot.

You didn't internalize the list of curves in this example but I get the idea, thank you.

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on June 16, 2017 at 10:56am

Sure, of course I don't think one way is better than the other in this case, just nice to have some variants.

Sorry about internalize, it didn't exist when I learned GH so I often forget about it :D

Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on June 16, 2017 at 7:40am

Try this 'Tree/List Viewer' tool I wrote; I use it ALL THE TIME!

The 'Sort' components weren't helping at all. In fact, the way you had wired the first one corrupted the process.

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