Pyramid Pattern - There has to be a better way

[maxcad]

I’m making my first steps in Grasshopper and would appreciate help with my pyramid pattern.
It behaves exactly like I want it to but I’m sure there is a more elegant way.

Right now I split a grid in different groups of points, move the points and then weave everything back into one list with the original grid structure.
Afterwards I create the surfaces one by one in a bloated process.

Isn’t there a way to create a surface first and then manipulate it in this way? So that I don’t have to weave everything back together?

pyramids.gh (49.5 KB)

[Joseph_Oster]

There must be many ways of doing this, including a two dimensional grid of just one polysurface.

I skipped the first part of your code and replaced the “bloated process” with this:

pyramids_2022Feb15b.gh (28.7 KB)

[maxcad]

Thanks! I will need some time to wrap my head around this but it looks way cleaner.
However it cannot handle any adjustments to the number of grid cells in the beginning.

[Joseph_Oster]

@maxcad

However it cannot handle any adjustments to the number of grid cells in the beginning.

Oh dear! Here is a quick fix (yellow group):

pyramids_2022Feb15c.gh (31.7 KB)

[Joseph_Oster]

FYI, the convoluted (and flawed) model I posted started as an exploration of the points emerging from the Tree Branch component. This is the first draft, which was quite simple. But the four-edge surfaces are not planar because the horizontal line segments that form triangles are missing:

pyramids_2022Feb15a.gh (22.6 KB)

I hope someone else will play with this and find a solution as robust as your “bloated process”, which works well, even when both sliders that create the grid are set to 1. Mine still breaks.

[HS_Kim]

Check this as well…

pyramids_re.gh (9.9 KB)

[maxcad]

That is impressive, thank you very much!

I like how you used Average to create the pyramid’s midpoint.