Islamic Pattern - Wrong strategy to create it?

I'm not sure but it seems that i used a wrong strategy to create an Islamic Pattern. I wonder if there is a way to do it more simple or at least without too much points and "point on Curve" components?

with this method i cannot use point attractions too.

I guess i could use lists and trees more than that instead of separating each line and point, but i didn't know how!

there are some problems with extruding the pattern and i cannot control it neither.

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Eight-Fold Rosette Pattern.gh, 49 KB

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Permalink Reply by Armin Seltz on May 11, 2016 at 7:43am

So I think the key to solving your problem is to either graft the cells right at the beginning again, so each square is in its own branch, or simply design a single square and then duplicate at the end.

For simplifying the operations you do, you can also use a few trick, as you will see, like using the many-to-many intersections instead of single ones.

Have a look at my rework of it. I started doing it with the 5x5 grid and it works, except for the last part. So I redesigned it using just a single square.

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EightFoldRosettePattern_redux.gh, 22 KB

Permalink Reply by kaveh dadgar on May 11, 2016 at 9:08am

Wow! Thank you so much!

I don't know why my mind always pick up the worst ways in grasshopper :))

You did it with a different looking at the pattern. i cannot simplify things like this.

Permalink Reply by Armin Seltz on May 12, 2016 at 12:48am

Dont worry about that. That's one thing I like about Grasshopper.. there is never just one correct/wrong way, but many strategies. About simplifying things, that will just come after using it a lot. Trust me my patches, and probably everyone elses, used to look like that when I was still fairly new to Grasshopper. I am in the lucky position to be able to use and experiment with Grasshopper almost every day for the last 2 years :)

Permalink Reply by kaveh dadgar on May 13, 2016 at 3:31am

Thank you again for the experiences you shared. I really enjoy working with grasshopper but sometimes i think my brain is going to explode :)). But i'm sure it's all about working and working again. No Pain, No Gain!

Permalink Reply by Armin Seltz on May 13, 2016 at 3:46am

Absolutely. Also my Grasshopper skills made major improvements when I went to some intermediate workshops. You learn so much in those! So if you can, try to do one of those, you can find some here: http://www.grasshopper3d.com/events.

Also I found some of the sessions on here really good: http://grasshopper.rese-arch.org/group/grasshopper

Lastly you can find a lot of tutorial videos on youtube, like these: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdsZ7cjB6urAQxRhySmiURQ/videos

Permalink Reply by kaveh dadgar on May 14, 2016 at 4:16am

Thank you so much for your time armin ;)

Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on May 11, 2016 at 11:06am

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/octagon-square-tesselatio...

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Permalink Reply by kaveh dadgar on May 13, 2016 at 3:36am

Thank you Joseph for sharing it. actually it was really handy for me. I'm sure i have some serious problems and lack of knowledge in trees structure...

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