As follow-up to a previous post, Plant Connector Detail Lines via Dynamo, a reader suggested that the plantings could be sorted a few different ways, including by x and y coordinate values and by distance from another point. I thought these were both good ideas, so I went ahead and made a few nodes that can do just that.

Today’s Landform update has a few new nodes, including Points.SortByDistance and Points.SortByXY:

Starting out, here is a set of trees that I connect prior to sorting.

And the same trees connected with XthenY sorting:

And YthenX…

And then sorted by distance (using the min xy as the base point).

In concept, sorting by distance is ideal with a radial configuration:

Though linear configurations will also sort neatly. The SortByDistance node has the ability to sort sublists as well, so you can connect multiple sets of different planting types:

Unfortunately, I was not able to get the XY node to sort sublists correctly, but it will still work fine with a single set.

And here is the entire definition for connecting multiple planting types at once.