You can even sort stuff in a circular fashion by using a circle instead of a line:
http://groups.google.com/group/grasshopper3d/web/ReorderByCircularSort.png This is a very powerful mechanism to change the order of data. -- David Rutten [email protected] Robert McNeel & Associates On Mar 14, 1:17 pm, David Rutten <[email protected]> wrote: > Easy solution? Rotate the plane 90 degrees and turn the grid into > 10*5. > > Hard solution? Generate a list of numbers that (when sorted) will give > the new distribution: > > Project all points onto a line segment that points in the desired > direction. Combine the projection parameter (t) and the projection > distance (D) into a new number (making sure that distance is far more > important than the line parameter) and sort all the points with the > numbers: > > http://groups.google.com/group/grasshopper3d/web/ReorderBySort.png > > -- > David Rutten > [email protected] > Robert McNeel & Associates > > On Mar 14, 9:51 am, LaoyeChan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > hi guys, > > I have a recGrid of 5*10, and the order of the points are as > > 1 6 11 16 21... > > 2 7 12 17 22... > > 3 8 13 18 23... > > 4 9 14 19 24... > > 5 10 15 20 25... > > > and I need to change the order to > > 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 > > 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 > > ...... > > 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 > > > What should i do? > > > Thanks.
