Uniform distribution objects on surface

Hello All
I am novice in grasshopper. I am looking for a solution to uniform distribution objects on arbitrary surface(terrain for example). It mean distance between each two neighboring should be equal (approximately, in some range)

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Permalink Reply by Hannes Löschke on April 1, 2012 at 3:52am

Are you familiar with the concept of circle packing?

Permalink Reply by kvadrat on April 1, 2012 at 4:09am

I understand that it is close to my question. I read this (http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/circle-packingflow-along?...) discussion and a few others. But I have not found a solution for an arbitrary shape. I do not need much accuracy in the contact between circles on the surface. Enough that would be the distance between the objectswas approximately the same

Permalink Reply by Andrei Raducanu on April 1, 2012 at 4:28am

do you mean direct distance or on the surface?

Permalink Reply by kvadrat on April 1, 2012 at 4:46am

i mean distance on the surface. but in this case it almost the same because i will use very smooth terrain

Permalink Reply by Andrei Raducanu on April 1, 2012 at 5:26am

any particular pattern you're looking for? squares/triangles/hexagons?

Permalink Reply by kvadrat on April 1, 2012 at 5:34am

Any. squares first

Permalink Reply by kvadrat on April 1, 2012 at 5:35am

I found this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ87Rn5WLo8&feature=related .here you can see sheme but only as picture http://sac3.blogspot.com/2008/08/grasshopper-sections.html. I have no enough experience to remake this

Permalink Reply by kvadrat on April 2, 2012 at 4:38am

or maybe someone know a tool to change mesh topology making the distance between neighboring points uniform?

Permalink Reply by Darren Chang on April 2, 2012 at 6:40am

I hope this is what you are looking for.

Basically you need to make a Bounding Box around the object, divide the target surface into Surface Boxes, then distribute the object in the Bounding Box to the Surface Boxes.

Attachments:

match_object_to_surface.gh, 4 KB
match_object_to_surface.3dm, 136 KB

Permalink Reply by kvadrat on April 2, 2012 at 11:25am

Unfortunately this is absolutely not what I need. my problem - the Uniform distribution of objects or points on the surface. distance between each two neighboring should be equal. but if I deform surface in your case, the distance between the points will be very different (A1-B1,A2-B2)