Breaking a gradient to a grid

[joegeee]

Hey,

Does anyone know how to break a gradient into a grid like the image below? Struggling for ideas.

Has to be vector.

Thanks!

[DougKatz · Accepted solution]

Draw your rectangle, fill with your gradient, rasterize the object, apply Object menu > Create Object Mosaic. That last step will return vector rectangles.

[joegeee]

Thank you so much!

[kphotopage · Accepted solution]

Joegeee, Hi.

Another method is to use Blend Steps. See image below.

Here I started with 4 squares, pinks and blues.

Object>Blend. I used Blend Steps 5

Do the top two, then the bottom two.

Object>Blend>Expand.

Now take those two Groups and Blend again.

Expand.

Select all, Swatches panel, Create a New Color Group.

K

[joegeee]

Excellent, thank you!