as follows.
We have a grid which consists of a collection of columns, where each column consists of a list of points. You said flattening is out of the question, so we need to cull items from each list individually.
Let's say our culling pattern is KDDDKDD (repeat as needed). K = Keep, D = Ditch. If a column contains 18 points, the pattern needs to be repeated until it is 18 items long. In this case:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
K D D D K D D K D D D K D D K D D D
We can now cull each column, but they will all be culled in the same way. By shifting the pattern one more index for each column, we can cycle the culling.
The fix incidentally is to Shift the pattern PRIOR to repeating it. Then it works as expected:
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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Tirol, Austria…
Added by David Rutten at 2:49pm on October 2, 2013
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Path Mapper have a very interesting behavior, sometimes speed up things really easy.
(I've used the -1 to make paths start from 0 instead than from 1, with an input tree with 0 length branches or minimum branches length = 2 you will need to edit that)
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