thank you david, i'll look at it the next day. i dont know why but i cant get 
on to the site during this time of day.
 
  
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  From: "David Rutten"<[email protected]>;
 Date: 2009年3月14日(星期六) 晚上8:22
 To: "Grasshopper"<[email protected]>; 
 Subject: Re: how to change the order of points?

  

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.

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