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Relaxed Disk Packing

Computational Geometry 2015-05-14 v1

Abstract

Motivated by biological questions, we study configurations of equal-sized disks in the Euclidean plane that neither pack nor cover. Measuring the quality by the probability that a random point lies in exactly one disk, we show that the regular hexagonal grid gives the maximum among lattice configurations.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1505.03402,
  title  = {Relaxed Disk Packing},
  author = {Herbert Edelsbrunner and Mabel Iglesias-Ham and Vitaliy Kurlin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.03402},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

8 pages => 5 pages of main text plus 3 pages in appendix. Submitted to CCCG 2015

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