do you have any rule of thumb that the filtering must follow?
assuming panel types are A,B,C → is there any configuration you consider “bad” so want to avoid?
like for instance:
A A A A A C → is it ok to not have all 3 different types present in the same row?
A A A A B C → is it ok to have “big disproportion” between the amounts of different panel type?
A B A A C A → A appears, then something else, then A again, then something else, then A again: is it ok for a type to appear multiple times in separate “islands” in the very same row? or:
A A B B B C → or once a type appears it can be repeated, but when a new one comes then the old type shouldn’t be used anymore?
if nothing of the above matters, then you can just random integer range [0,2] and bam, you have your filter (just need to find seed value you like):
I don’t know specifically what you want to do with those panels, but I -personally- prefere to not reorganize panel lists into panel types unless strictly necessary… but if you really want a data tree based on panel type you might go with something like this:
Still, i’m getting 3 lists now, but each panel is separate.
Is there a way to get 3 list in which,
list 1 contains panels that have no panel adjacent to them horizontally
list 2 contains panels that have only 1 panel adjacent to them horizontally
list 3 contains panels that have only 2 panels adjacent to them horizontally
and I also find out if I try to join the surfaces, they may join horizontally or vertically, but I hope they only join horizontally even if there are panels on top or below it.
→ each row of panel should be independent from the others
→ you want to get groups of 1, 2 or 3 panels joined together, and want them to be in separate lists
→ between panels that belong to two different lists should there be a “hole”? like empty space in the size of a single panel?
well… let me say I thought it would be an easy task to just use domains in first place to trim panels to their final length (meaning not having to join unit-panels together) but it involved more suffering than I thought (btw, no “hole” thing at the moment)
