Partial randomization of a grid of symbols

[unearthed]

Hi all, I want to joggle the positions of a lot of symbols that are on a radial grid - see jpg attached. I thought there was a script that would joggle the positions of many objects according to simple parameters (like my example in the enc. jpg), but it mustve been a false memory!

Does anyone have a script that will at least randomize a rectangular or square grid?

The case is an experimental acoustic planting based on sonic crystal theory. The original rule this came from was:

"each tree is moved from its regular position, and placed randomly in the zone equal to 1/5th of the distance in between the trees". That was written for a square grid though.

Either my rule or the one above would be great.

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WTG.189_forRAND.skp

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[Box]

One sort of manual way would be to use random select, then move those selected, rinse and repeat.

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[pilou]

Seems you can make something with Make Fur!

And for radial gride Work Plane by Tig

[Pixero]

You could try with my plugin: https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=JS_Random_Move

[unearthed]

Thanks everyone for your ideas - sdmitch kindly sent me a short script which did the trick.

Interesting looking plugin Pixero but I couldn't get it to move anything, I'm using su8.

[Pixero]

@unearthed

See PM.

[Pixero]

I have updated the script to 1.1 now with support for older SketchUp and some new features.
https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=JS_Random_Move