How to get size (diamater) distribution

Scripting
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I would like to create a script that will loop through the domain(see attached) and get the size (diameter/bounding box) for each shape.

Any help would be appreciated.

Eric

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Bounding box is not too hard to do, but the question is what do you want to do with the info obtained afterward? --Mitch

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Thanks, Mitch
The objective is to generate a size distribution curve where the sizes will be binned into about 100 bins and the frequencies for each obtained.

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Size as in bounding box area? For diameter you would need a minimum bounding circle which would take some iteration. I don’t think there are any Rhino functions that will find this for you. Are you constraining the input objects to 2d curves?

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Size as in maximum bounding box dimension. Yes, will constrain the input objects to 2D curves.

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This works here. Will give you a list of max lengths that you can use to feed your histogram. I think it should work for any 3d rhino doc object but I didn’t test. Also I guess I didn’t ask if you meant python or rhino script. This is python.

import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs
import scriptcontext as sc
import Rhino as R

def get_max_bb_dims(guids):
    max_lengths = []
    for guid in guids:
        geo = rs.coercegeometry(guid)
        if geo:
            bbox = geo.GetBoundingBox(R.Geometry.Plane.WorldXY)
            x_length = abs(bbox.Diagonal.X)
            y_length = abs(bbox.Diagonal.Y)
            z_length = abs(bbox.Diagonal.Z)
            max_length = max(x_length, y_length, z_length)
            max_lengths.append(max_length)
    return max_lengths

# get the curve guids    
guids = rs.GetObjects('select 2d curves in XY plane')
# dims will be a list of max bbox dimensions
dims = get_max_bb_dims(guids)
# print out min/max dims for a check
print('minimum dim: {}, maximum dim: {}'.format(min(dims), max(dims)))

Output:
minimum dim: 1.9131, maximum dim: 3.9119

Source curves (and bounding box rectangles):

Assumes the curves are in XY plane. No error handling.