Greetings all, I have been working on a structure that requires circle packing on a shaped dome with some sharp corners. I have been getting some very helpful reference from this community but after some time without noticeable progress I have decided to come ask for help. These are our criteria: …

Thank you very much for your assistance, this works a lot better compared to my script in rhino 6, I will still need some time to digest the work you did with C# but this is a great improvement. An interesting result is the circle have higher chance to go over border when the circle size is too big…

To give a bit more explanation - in a compact circle packing, the size of the circles is completely determined by the connectivity of the mesh and I believe 2 parameters for where they touch the boundary (essentially you can slide them along the boundary and choose how ‘bunched up’ they are - easies…

[image] DanielPiker: combined remeshing and circle packing Dear Dan, Your input is helpful. Thank you. The challenge we face with our design for a dome sculpture that will hold various size balls (basketballs, beachballs, soccerballs, exercise balls etc) is that we’d like to have greater va…

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Dear Peter, I´m interested in your solutions for the problems and aims you mentioned in your last post. Did you make any progress for the questions 1-3? Best, Samuel

Hello, has there been any progress on being able to pre-place circles in a certain brep, and having the circle packing script being able to recognize them such that when the script runs, it doesn’t have any overlap with these circles? I’ve noticed that the mesh doesn’t get offset evenly when experie…

Hi [image] DanielPiker: At some point I will make an updated version of this combined version, possibly as part of TriRemesh. Hi Samuel, Unfortunately we have not been able to find a solution to these three questions. Daniel Piker mentioned he is working on an updated version of his combine…

@assistant.petercoffi [image] assistant.petercoffi: We’d like the range of circle diameters to be more varied in order to accommodate different size balls. Is there a way to control circle size variance within our desired circle diameter range of 8” to 30” diameters? For example, can we influen…

Dear @benedict I am currently very new to Grasshopper and am now working on continuing this design as mentioned previously in this thread (a design looking to compact-pack a range of circles with different diameters ranging from ~8”- ~27” on a surface of a shaped dome with sharp corners), and I se…

Compact circle packing on complex surface

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DanielPiker (Daniel Piker) May 5, 2021, 5:17pm 2

Have a go with this:
circpack_dome.gh (111.4 KB)

You’ll need Rhino 7 though - can you download the trial version?

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