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Sphere packing #308

Open meinertsen opened 7 years ago

meinertsen commented 7 years ago

hexagonal close packing of spheres in another sphere, cube or cylinder? Most of the theory on close packing seems to focus on optimizing the container (sphere, cube or cylinder) size to minimize the void, but could you visulize an example where the radius for the smaller sphere is given and then maximize the packing/density in an arbitrary container?

example: how many sphere's with r = 1 fits into a bigger sphere with r = 100

meiamsome commented 7 years ago

This is an extension of #51, though I still think it stands as it's own topic - Maybe there should be n-dimensional hypersphere packing!