From the course: Grasshopper Essential Training (2017)

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Adding offsets for tiling

Adding offsets for tiling

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Adding offsets for tiling

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- [Man] In the last two videos, we set up a parametric hexagonal tiling algorithm that generates a perfectly tiled field of hexagons. We'll continue working in the Rhino file, hex-tiling.3dm and right now I've got the Grasshopper definition from the last video open, 0030-hexagonal-tiling-finished.gh. And we're just going to keep adding to that definition. One ability I'd like to have is to space out the hexagons evenly. And maybe I'd use this for designing ceramic tiles, and I want to simulate the grout lines, or I just want some more flexibility in creating my designs. So my goal in this video is to add a spacing parameter to put an even gap in between each tile. We can do that pretty easily. We'll just need to modify our algorithm a little bit. So back at the beginning in step one. I'll just make some notes for what I need to accomplish here. So I'm going to add a user-defined spacing parameter. And then, in these steps where I'm calculating the horizontal and vertical offset, I'll…

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