Randomly populate a surface with X different kind items

[Andrea_Francesconi]

Hi there,
I’m trying to populate a surface with 4 different polygon and polyline. I figure out how to populate it randomly, working with “Populate Geometry” and a Randomize algorithm that works but the result is not good. I would like to achieve a pattern like the reference that I post.

Another objective would be to be able to select the 4 types of curves separately, after having populated the surface

Thanks in advance.

[magicteddy]

Hi,

An idea could be to perform a circle packing with a predetermined set of radii for the circles, then orient your shapes to the corresponding circles.
With some tweaking, at least the shapes don’t overlap.

CirclePackingPatterns.gh (28.6 KB)

[laurent_delrieu]

Wordle if your surface is on a plane.

Nesting randomly (sort of Wordle)

Here some words inside other words made with a script that deconstruct a shape in an array of bool. [love%201] [love%20bunnies] [love%20bunny%204] [Love2] [image] [love3] [Sans%20titre%202] [effectsResult] There is no optimization in it. It uses some brute force but is quite fast, 1.5 second for 100,000 runs and 1000 pixels minimum. Not a very clean script at the moment nesting words V2.gh (66.2 KB) It answer a question of @luiscarlospp

now on Nautilus plugin

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