To cull or not to cull in Galapagos

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 18, 2015 at 6:05am

I'm confused about what exactly you're trying to do. Galapagos may be able to find an ideal culling pattern, or it may not be if the pattern problem space has too little continuity to it.

I do not know what 'modifiable pattern' means.

Permalink Reply by Dominik Simon on October 18, 2015 at 7:30am

Thank´s for your reply David,

I´m searching for an ideal culling pattern, that´s it, yes.

Let´s say I have 5 random points in list. Now I want to give Galapagos the opportunity to generate every possible culling pattern for this list. Is there way to do that?

With modifiable pattern I meant, that galapagos can modify the pattern it generated one genaration before.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 18, 2015 at 8:13am

[...] generate every possible culling pattern for this list. Is there way to do that?

No, galapagos doesn't work that way. It is specifically not a brute-force solver and to generate all possible patterns you need a brute-force approach. However you can probably make the culling patterns through regular Grasshopper components, it's what the Cross Reference component was made for:

Permalink Reply by Dominik Simon on October 20, 2015 at 2:19pm

Alright thank you :)

so with a small amount of data i can just run throug all patterns.
But no brute-force solving.