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This paper deals with the problem of circle packing, in which the largest radii circle is to be fit in a confined space filled with arbitrary circles of different radii and centers. A circle packing problem is one of a variety of cutting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Pulkit Mundra , Veni Goyal , Kusum Deep

We consider packings of congruent circles on a square flat torus, i.e., periodic (w.r.t. a square lattice) planar circle packings, with the maximal circle radius. This problem is interesting due to a practical reason - the problem of "super…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-21 Oleg R. Musin , Anton V. Nikitenko

In this paper we present a new algorithm for a layout optimization problem: this concerns the placement of weighted polygons inside a circular container, the two objectives being to minimize imbalance of mass and to minimize the radius of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2008-09-30 Yi-Chun Xu , Ren-Bin Xiao , Martyn Amos

We explore an instance of the question of partitioning a polygon into pieces, each of which is as ``circular'' as possible, in the sense of having an aspect ratio close to 1. The aspect ratio of a polygon is the ratio of the diameters of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Mirela Damian , Joseph O'Rourke

This paper encompasses the mathematical derivations of the analytic and generalized formula and recurrence relations to find out the radii of n umber of circles inscribed or packed in the plane region bounded by circular arcs (including…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-23 Harish Chandra Rajpoot

We consider circle packings in the plane with circles of sizes $1$, $r\simeq 0.834$ and $s\simeq 0.651$. These sizes are algebraic numbers which allow a compact packing, that is, a packing in which each hole is formed by three mutually…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Thomas Fernique

Let $S$ be a set of $n$ points in the unit square $[0,1]^2$, one of which is the origin. We construct $n$ pairwise interior-disjoint axis-aligned empty rectangles such that the lower left corner of each rectangle is a point in $S$, and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-07-31 Adrian Dumitrescu , Csaba D. Tóth

Circle packings are arrangement of circles satisfying specified tangency requirements. Many problems about packing of circles and spheres occur in nature particularly in material design and protein structure. Surprisingly, little is known…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Robert Connelly , Zhen Zhang

Representing a polygon using a set of simple shapes has numerous applications in different use-case scenarios. We consider the problem of covering the interior of a rectilinear polygon with holes by a set of area-weighted, axis-aligned…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Kathrin Hanauer , Martin P. Seybold , Julian Unterweger

We have studied the packing of congruent disks on a spherical cap, for caps of different size and number of disks, $N$. This problem has been considered before only in the limit cases of circle packing inside a circle and on a sphere…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-23 Paolo Amore

We determine putative optimal packings of regular spherical polygons via optimization on smooth manifolds. For several cases, we establish maximality by extending the Lov\'asz theta number to Cayley graphs on the special orthogonal group…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Fernando Mário de Oliveira Filho , Andreas Spomer , Frank Vallentin

The paper reports a generalized expression for filling the congruent circles (of radius r) in a circle (of radius R). First, a generalized expression for the biggest circle (r) inscribed in the nth part of the bigger circle (R) was…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Ajeet K. Srivastav

In this work we propose a heuristic algorithm for the layout optimization for disks installed in a rotating circular container. This is a unequal circle packing problem with additional balance constraints. It proved to be an NP-hard…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Washington Alves de Oliveira , Luiz Leduino de Salles Neto , Antonio Carlos Moretti , Ednei Felix Reis

We study the problem of high-dimensional multiple packing in Euclidean space. Multiple packing is a natural generalization of sphere packing and is defined as follows. Let $ N>0 $ and $ L\in\mathbb{Z}_{\ge2} $. A multiple packing is a set…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-10 Yihan Zhang , Shashank Vatedka

Based on numerical simulations that we have carried out, we provide evidence that for regular polygons with $\sigma= 6j$ sides (with $j=2,3,\dots$), $N(k)=3 k (k+1)+1$ (with $k=1,2,\dots$) congruent disks of appropriate size can be nicely…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-03 Paolo Amore , Mauricio Carrizalez , Ulises Zarate

We consider the problem of finding all enclosing rectangles of minimum area that can contain a given set of rectangles without overlap. Our rectangle packer chooses the x-coordinates of all the rectangles before any of the y-coordinates. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Eric Huang , Richard E. Korf

We study the optimal packing of hard spheres in an infinitely long cylinder, using simulated annealing, and compare our results with the analogous problem of packing disks on the unrolled surface of a cylinder. The densest structures are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-04 A. Mughal , H. K. Chan , D. Weaire , S. Hutzler

We describe a new numerical procedure for generating dense packings of disks and spheres inside various geometric shapes. We believe that in some of the smaller cases, these packings are in fact optimal. When applied to the previously…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David W. Boll , Jerry Donovan , Ronald L. Graham , Boris D. Lubachevsky

We study the problem of high-dimensional multiple packing in Euclidean space. Multiple packing is a natural generalization of sphere packing and is defined as follows. Let $ N>0 $ and $ L\in\mathbb{Z}_{\ge2} $. A multiple packing is a set…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-10 Yihan Zhang , Shashank Vatedka

Packing problems, which ask how to arrange a collection of objects in space to meet certain criteria, are important in a great many physical and biological systems, where geometrical arrangements at small scales control behaviour at larger…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-23 Miranda C. Holmes-Cerfon