Assigning material randomly

[Saffie]

How would I randomly assign all of these cubes different materials? I want them all to be glass of different colours, they are all collected into 1 layer

[Japhy]

Hi Saffie,

We’ll need a little information to be able to properly assist.

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[Saffie]

Hey sorry, i havnt touched grasshopper in about a year and dont really remember what im doing.

i found a couple of similar examples like this but i dont really know what im looking at.

i want to assign these cubes with a random coloured glass material

Randomly Select objects and create 4 color groups

Hello! I am trying to create a random pattern of 4 colors. I managed to create a script in Grasshopper that does it for 2, but cannot replicate it for 4. Here is a screenshot of the way it looks now, but I need 4 different colors, and preferably I’d like for there to be an even number of each color pane. (There are 828 panes, so 207 panes per color.) [image] This is the script I created, please let me know how I can adjust it for my goal. random selection A.gh (31.2 KB) Here is the file wi…

heres my file with the cubes, any help is really appreciated

model.3dm (5.7 MB)

[Japhy]

here is a quick way..

Typically you would have a set of colors and then jitter to create the randomness, often designers will specify a % of the colors in the set.
RandomColor-R8.gh (7.9 KB)

[Saffie]

thank you so much, this is a perfect start! time to play around with it!

[Japhy]

Another quick version.

RandomColor-R8-v2.gh (11.6 KB)

note you can query and assign Rhino materials as well.