Creating a randomly tiled shader.

[LasJen]

I have to re-create the facade of this building. I was thinking OSL might have a map that could create the random squares?
I tried with the tiles map, but seems to be a lost cause..
Does anyone have any ideas?

[Morne]

multitexture and bercontile

[fixeighted]

Hmm...the thing is that it is not random; that is, if you want to recreate it then it'll need to be correct, no?
It looks like there are only a few different panel sizes so personally I would set it up correctly - shouldn't take that long really

[Oleg_Budeanu]

It is tileable.
I'd use railclone to create one repeatable pattern and place it on top, cutting out windows and etc. With railclones "cap holes" this should be quite easy task.

[fixeighted]

Looks to me like it only tiles up to a point, on the long side, then breaks up. It would probably look fine if tiled but it wouldn't be a faithful recreation, if that's the objective
I reckon they messed up and put a wrong panel in there on the corner bits

[LasJen]

Ended up getting the architect to create a quick 10x10 cutout of the facade. Then i scattered that around the base mesh. Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll go try some of them now