Slate pattern again

Hi!

I have put myself in a bit of a pinch: I need to make a pattern like in the image I have attached, but I have an area that is about 500 meters long and 1.5 meters wide that needs to be covered. Drawing by hand is going to take me forever, so Im hoping grasshopper will be my ticket. I have been trying to get a voronoi pattern going, but to be honest my GH skills are extremely basic. My idea is to scatter points along a curve and have them come closer apart the further away from the curve they get (to make smaller pieces of slate on the edge of the area). The problem is that I have no clue as of how to go about it....

Could anyone give me a few pointers?

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Permalink Reply by Martin Engdahl on November 12, 2017 at 5:04am

If it was possible to get the small fill in pieces between bigger ones it would be even better, but that's even further out of my skillset I guess

Permalink Reply by Laurent DELRIEU on November 12, 2017 at 6:35am

Hello not easy to understand you. You have two discussions with slate ! Is The previous idea dead ? Have you some hand drawing ? Some picture ? Some closed polygon and a curve are not very informative ...

Permalink Reply by Martin Engdahl on November 12, 2017 at 6:44am

Hi!

The first discussion is for a section drawing, this one is for plan drawing. The polygons are representing slate sheets (like in a garden path for example). The curve represents the path I want to distribute slate around. Adding a better pic.

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Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on November 12, 2017 at 6:50am

This really is a duplicate thread on the same goal. Starting a new thread loses continuity.

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/make-section-of-slate-wit...

Permalink Reply by Martin Engdahl on November 12, 2017 at 6:53am

Hmm... in a way I agree, both deal with slate. However, the section shape of slate is extremely different from how it looks in plan. I was thinking the way to achieve results would be very different in each case? Hence two threads.

Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on November 12, 2017 at 7:30am

The trouble is that you don't know all the possible approaches to answering your original question. By starting a new thread and defining a different problem, you are taking the lead and removing the original context and all previous answers.

Permalink Reply by Martin Engdahl on November 12, 2017 at 7:36am

I see them as two totally different problems though: the first one has been solved by your and Davids nice pointers, this one is indeed about slate but a totally different method of finding form.
I think I have solved this one though :)

Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on November 12, 2017 at 7:51am

Well sir, the title of this thread is "Slate pattern again" which indicates redundancy right off the bat. That's what I responded to, along with the fact that I didn't see any resolution of the first thread. If this aspect of the problem is truly unrelated (and on closer reading, I can see that it is), then a different title would make that more clear.

If you indeed have solved both of these problems, how about sharing them?

Permalink Reply by Martin Engdahl on November 12, 2017 at 8:17am

Im sorry I have been unclear, I am somewhat stressed out at the moment.
Also, I have been a bit unclear about solving the issues: I mean I have found solutions to my prblems, not made new definitions to solve them.
I found this thread to solve the problem I started this thread about:
http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/filleting-voronoi-curves-...

I used the definition and then modified the result by hand.

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