a screen shot that hopefully helps: http://grasshopper3d.googlegroups.com/web/ScreenShot007.png?gsc=CxFx5BYAAAC1KAQya-4JmE3ce-seiAbeaKk2tFLs90LD5qOQGCC3Kw
On Apr 21, 11:17 am, carter <[email protected]> wrote: > hi. > i am setting up a pretty simple grasshopper file. > > i have a set of rectangles that i am moving to a surface, then > adjusting in the x-axis with a slight randomization, and then > extruding, also with a randomization. > > curves, evaluate curve to get a single point, line from point through > surface, intersect surface, move curve to intersect point, adjust > position(with random), extrude. > > simple. right? > > wrong. > > the problem i am having is that when i try to randomly move the > geometry that is coming out of the first move, it then multiplies the > geometry by order of itself. six rectangles turn into 36 rectangles. > if i set the move to shortest list, it outputs only six rectangles, > but then it only moves all of them by the first number in the > randomized list. if i feed the original rectangles into this, rather > than the moved rectangles, and set the move to longest list, it > randomizes the move, and it does not multiply them. the input in > either case is 6 polylines. > > this is very frustrating and i am working on a deadline! > > thanks for any help. > > carter
