Herringbone tile pattern with color gradient and randomizer

So, I am new to grasshopper, and am trying to lay out a ceramic tile pattern for a project in a parquet herringbone pattern. Additionally, I want to create a gradient across the entire surface using 5 colors, but also have the ability to randomize the pattern a bit afterwards (see attached image). Is this possible?

Thanks!!!

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Permalink Reply by Damon on July 23, 2014 at 8:22am

I was just looking into herringbone patterns. It's not a straight-forward pattern to generate from a simple grid. It is easy to copy-paste or array, though. My suggestion would be to model the tiles in Rhino, then create the color gradient in Grasshopper. Here I've done it quickly with a simple attractor-point logic.

Instead of the custom preview at the end, I'd just bake these to different layers where each layer is a different color tile.

To get the random, you could add a (pseudo)Random component when testing the distances to shift the numbers a bit and mix up the zones between the colors.

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Permalink Reply by Chris Hanley on July 23, 2014 at 9:16am

I second Damon's comments. I had spent a little time, (a while ago so this definition is a rough sketch and outdated), exploring this pattern. At the time, it ended up being one of those things that was just easier and faster to array manually in Rhino. I did end up with a definition, but all it does is array in x and y. It doesn't have any useful logic for following curves or anything. It's really just an overly complicated hatch pattern definition.

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