categorize panel types

All-

Anyone have a good thought on categorizing / grouping wall panels based on a panel dimensions -

I have approached it from two ways - matching all panels to a series of know sizes and looking at an individual panel and finding its match. Both give results but I think they are over complicating the issue.

I think what I should be doing is categorizing? or creating types based on dimensional similarity and outputting the number of variations...? This may be similar to the Morphosis Phare Tower panelization / typing...

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Anthony

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Permalink Reply by Yoann Mescam (Systemiq) on October 18, 2011 at 9:54am

See http://parametricmodel.com/K-meansclustering/16.html

Permalink Reply by anthony viola on October 18, 2011 at 10:56am

thanks for the link- what if you didn't know the number of clusters just that it should be minimized based on a tolerance - and it would be searching keys among multiple dimensional criteria...

Permalink Reply by Yoann Mescam (Systemiq) on October 18, 2011 at 11:25am

I think you can plug Galapagos in the equation, or just a serie of clusters numbers and keep the best one.

About the multi-dimensional criteria, well I dont know, are you talking about (length, width) ?

I think it should be doable to apply k-means on the length, then reapply it on width and get a useful (even if not correct) classification.

Permalink Reply by Yoann Mescam (Systemiq) on October 18, 2011 at 1:03pm

Example for multi dimensions:

First key is U/V, second is area. The classification is displayed as U/V.Area

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on October 18, 2011 at 10:34am

I've been a fan of the sort list component. Heres a definition that sorts random placed objects (left side) areas and sorts them along lines neatly by area (right side) using the sort list than delete duplicate and moving with a cluster I made found here. http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/move-object-based-on-refe.... Hope it helps, and you can sort anything this way, by color, volume, distance, dimensions. Just change the area list to the desired sorting list.

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