pick all cells closest to eachother without beeing neighbors or sharing the same neighbors

Hello guys, im a little confused and dont get it how i can make a list with cells which are the closest to eachother withouht beeing neighbors or share the same neighbors.

i need a definition that works in grasshopper so that i can change the amount of cells. here is an example but only in rhino in small grid, picked manually.

I need it to work as fast as possible beacuse i need it for my seminar till monday.

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Permalink Reply by ng5 Alex on June 20, 2014 at 5:35pm

this is too complex for me without a definition.

please upload what you have so far in order to understand what you are after.

Permalink Reply by Andreas Schiffer on June 20, 2014 at 6:17pm

i hope you can understand what im trying to do. I'll send you the rhino file too.

Attachments:

Real und Digital 2_1.3dm, 1.7 MB
WindPanel.gh, 43 KB

Permalink Reply by Andreas Schiffer on June 20, 2014 at 6:40pm

i made a picture to show what i'm meaning. I want just fill the area between that surfaces.

But with the corners of the culled surfaces which were not moved.

Permalink Reply by ng5 Alex on June 20, 2014 at 6:57pm

to be honest i don't understand what you want to do.

i am also missing the whole project to a sphere process which is in the last cluster which due to data structure is very heavy and when finally gets computed doesn't output anything.

Permalink Reply by Andreas Schiffer on June 20, 2014 at 7:08pm

i think the radius was not set. This files should work.

You saw the offsetted surfaces, right. Now i want to fill the space between them to get a volume with a smooth polysurface. But i dont want to just patch the space, i want that they're hanging dragged by the cells behind them.

Attachments:

WindPanel new.gh, 46 KB
Real und Digital 2_1.3dm, 2.8 MB

Permalink Reply by Andreas Schiffer on June 20, 2014 at 7:39pm

i need the surfaces cut out of the spheres for raytracing. i want to send the rays to the ground an generate a symbol. I'm not sure if a plane surface or sphere is better. for concentrating the light at one point it should be better. In Mi Cluster the sphere center is behind the ground. Thats the theory. I'm trying to generate a definitio which could work. The offset is to get a Volume with an uneven surface like water.

Permalink Reply by ng5 Alex on June 20, 2014 at 7:33pm

sorry i cant think of anything else than lofting the projected surfaces with the ones before offset.

Permalink Reply by Andreas Schiffer on June 20, 2014 at 7:46pm

i tried it in my first definition. My Professor told me to change it, it looks like a crystaline structure and not like water. I thought about rotating faces in a mesh so that the hole mesh would rearange himself. But my skills for something like that are to low....

Permalink Reply by Andreas Schiffer on June 20, 2014 at 8:05pm

i have to thank you for your help. you got me many steps forward and safed some time for me.

So thank you very much ng5.

Permalink Reply by ng5 Alex on June 21, 2014 at 8:24am

you're welcome!

cheers

alex