need help for "cull random"

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Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on May 16, 2017 at 8:08am

It appears to work, you just need to disable previews for a bunch of components and hide the original Rhino brep to see the results.  I am confused by all the manipulation of number values used by the 'Larger / Dispatch' components, but once I examined them and adjusted slider values to let 'Dispatch' do something, it worked fine.

I am also confused by the code that moves some of the surface sections in the 'X' direction?  (yellow group)  Odd.  Maybe the surface 'Normal' direction?  (blue group)

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Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on May 16, 2017 at 8:21am

If you want a simple random cull, there is a component for that - random 'Reduce':

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Permalink Reply by ncha0009 on May 16, 2017 at 6:39pm

hi Joseph 

one more Question 

how i can control cull random by using point or curve because at the bottom i don't want it cull 

Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on May 16, 2017 at 7:55pm

Ah, dealing with a trimmed surface, eh?  Don't have an immediate answer for that...

Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on May 16, 2017 at 8:33pm

How about this?  Red group filters sub-surface sections by 'Srf CP' distance ('D'):

P.S.  By trial and error, I determined that U=14 and V=60 to match the Rhino.

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Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on May 16, 2017 at 9:56pm

No reason for that 'Partition'?

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Permalink Reply by ncha0009 on May 17, 2017 at 5:06am

thank you Joseph that look very good 

Permalink Reply by ncha0009 on May 18, 2017 at 9:20pm

hi Josaph 

are there any component to make the surface like this i mean on top is airy

Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on May 19, 2017 at 7:14am

I don't fully understand your question?  The picture you posted shows a pattern that is NOT random, with a nearly solid band around it and open on top.  So controlling that pattern is a creative endeavor.  Instead of 'Random Reduce', you need to return to you original code and add a feature that uses distance from center to influence the pattern - an "attractor".

If you want the surfaces that have been removed, you can get them this way (white panels, purple group):

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Permalink Reply by Joe Allberry on May 19, 2017 at 8:39am

Joseph is correct, if it were truly random the distribution would look pretty even. If you want it to follow some rules the effect isn't equally distributed, but you can define rules and add some "randomness" to the transition that you define.

This is a quick method: It finds the base curve, the linear distance from each surface to that curve (then goes through the graph mapper for a bit more control) before being multiplied by a random number and being culled. 

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Permalink Reply by ncha0009 on May 24, 2017 at 6:09am

thank you for you help 

Permalink Reply by ncha0009 on May 24, 2017 at 6:09am

thank you for you help i will develop more :)