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 variance of circle sizes within the circle-packed design.
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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 influence or control how many of the circles can accomodate certain size balls.
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Is it possible to compact-pack circles at the edges of our shape where there are sharp corners? In our current design the circles packed into most corners of our shape leave voids that have more than three sides.
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If this problem is unavoidable, would it work for us to manually circle pack these corner areas before letting the automatic compact packing and relaxation fill the remaining surface shape?
We’re excited to know you’ve worked to combine remeshing and circle packing optimisation and we would be happy to apply that when that is operable.
Thanks in advance for your help Dan.
Best, Peter
