Center patterns

We have some patterns that our customers can choose from to put sandblast film on their windows. Not sure about the english term for it, but this is what i mean:
We are looking for a flexible way to make the vector file from a predefined pattern.
Like the example below, when resizing the outer rectangle (= the window), the number of squares should be adjusted automatically. And the squares need to be centered in the window all the time.
I'm not such an expert in using patterns in illustrator, but i believe there is no way to define settings that control the pattern i believe?
Like pattern brushes in illustrator, in which settings can be set like scale the pattern or scale the space inbetween, center the pattern,...
Hope this explanation is clear.
All tips are welcome, an illustrator feature or a plugin or ...
The square pattern below is just an example, see some other examples that i would like to easily control the thickness of lines, number of circles, space between stripes, horizontal and vertical scale of the pattern,...

Mylenium’s suggestion is a good one. Blends can be used for all of the examples you’ve shown, even the repeating lines that are of the same width. Joe Shoulak <www.joeshoulak.com>, formerly of the SF Chronicle and now with the Wall Street Journal, is a master of blending lines of various widths and lengths to to get the type of repeated variation you are after. Here are some examples of buildings and fish that he created that appeared in the Illustrator 9 WOW book (and yes, Joe and Sharon Steuer kindly gave their consent for the file to be posted here). I just wanted to show you how much potential Blends have.

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    This forum is intended for discussing the patterns from the Sun Java Center J2EE Pattern Catalog and other topics discussed in our book, Core J2EE Patterns.
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    There are a number of implementation strategies that can be used to implement the Composite View pattern, ranging from relatively simple to much more sophisticated. We describe each in our book and include source code examples.
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