Dear Path Mapper,

Grasshopper
#1

Why couldn’t you be made more versatile ?
I naively assumed that you could double as a “Replace Path” alternative if, instead of using letters and wildcards, I used actual path numbers.
But no : you just stack my lists into each branch of the new tree :

Dear Path Mapper
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One could also argue that the “Replace paths” could be made to work like a path mapper if it accepted letter placeholders and wildcards, but with the added bonus of having a dynamic input.

In short, I find that these two tree management tools could be advantageously combined into one, and I certainly am more interested in what GH2 has in store in that area than in the color picking business.
IF you see what I mean.

Trim Tree vs Shift Paths
#2

Canvas at 15;20;47
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#3

Look closer.
My mapping cannot be described like this.

#4

Oh. I assumed that there was a pattern, otherwise there is no point in using that component, it was not designed to change paths by hand, but to do it with a grammar.

#5

My argument is that it could do both, and also get better by making the pattern definition dynamic.

#6

That’s like developing the math for counting with the fingers.

#7

I totally agree, however, this way we can dynamically change Path Mapper:

PathMapper.gh (16.7 KB)

#8

It only takes 3 lines of code to implement Path Mapper with dynamic input but as @Dani_Abalde mentioned it’s not the way it supposed to work.

private void RunScript(DataTree<object> data, string source, string target, ref object A)
  {
    DataTree<object> treeOut = new DataTree<object>();
    GH_Lexer.PerformLexicalReplace<object>(new GH_Lexer(source), new GH_Lexer(target), data, treeOut);
    A = treeOut;
  }

DynamicPathMapper
DynamicPathMapper1612×768 59.5 KB

DynamicPathMapper.gh (17.9 KB)

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