Perimeter Sort

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Permalink Reply by David Wood on February 2, 2011 at 5:39am

Thanks Danny,

 

Very handy.

 

David.

Permalink Reply by Andrew Heumann on February 2, 2011 at 7:59am

very clever! love it.

Permalink Reply by Matt on February 2, 2011 at 1:05pm

Thanks for posting,

 

Very useful.

 

Matt

Permalink Reply by Evert Amador on February 2, 2011 at 1:35pm

Hey!

I didn't know about the parametricmodel.com blog!!!! This is really worth passing the news on and keeping up uploading!

Cheers
Evert

Permalink Reply by Gabe Krause on March 24, 2011 at 11:23am

It's a fun little problem. Here's another solution that could be useful, depending on circumstance.

 

 

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• PerimeterSortRad.ghx, 102 KB

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on March 24, 2011 at 11:33am

Nice variation.

Permalink Reply by Francesco De Luca on May 17, 2018 at 7:16am

Just used this. Very nice. Thank you.

Permalink Reply by Pieter Segeren on April 13, 2011 at 6:29am

Hi Danny, would there somehow be a way to apply this to lines, like in Noah Lee's question:
http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/extract-outline-from-cros...
?

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on April 13, 2011 at 7:35am

I'd say, for this example, yes. You could calculate the intersections and rebuild the boundary.

 

But note for this example the Convex Hull Component would do the same thing because there are no reflex angles between outer points.

Permalink Reply by Pieter Segeren on April 13, 2011 at 8:16am

Okay, thanks for looking into this Danny. It seems the lines themselves still have to be ordered in a circular way, right? Isn't there a way to sort the lines?

Permalink Reply by dadandroid on August 23, 2016 at 4:28am

Here is a boundary-less solution:

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• sort_pts_polyline.gh, 8 KB