From the course: Grasshopper Essential Training (2017)

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Adding additional tiling parameters

Adding additional tiling parameters

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Adding additional tiling parameters

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- [Instructor] In this video, we'll continue working in the Rhino file hex-tiling.3dm, and in Grasshopper, I've got the definition from the last video open. That's 0050-hexagonal-spacing-finished.gh, and we're just going to keep adding to that definition. I'd like to add two additional parameters that can help us get a bit more control over our tiling pattern, and help illustrate some of the defining characteristics of hexagonal tiling. So we'll add one to adjust the rounding factor of the hexagons and another to draw shapes with different numbers of sides. So that means another couple tweaks to my algorithm, this time all the way over at the beginning. I'll take in two new pieces of information, a floating-point number for the rounding factor, and an integer to set the number of sides in my polygon shapes. So for now I'll just use a panel and make some notes about what I'm intending to do. Then, all the way at the end of my algorithm, I'll need to add that information to my polygon…

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