Kangaroo packing

Grasshopper Kangaroo
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Dear David,

I am developing a research wherein one of my objectives is to be able to achieve collision between random shapes. I have developed an algorithm using kangaroo in order to stack them using the collider component

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The difficulty I am facing is stacking in the following 3 aspects, it would be great if the community too could help me out with these:

1. stacking on a funicular surface ensuring planarity of the pieces

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2. edge to edge stacking so that the edges with similar lengths align against each other

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3. introduce circles in the stacking process so as to generate voids

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Capsules in glass
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(moved to new topic).

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Same as on your old thread, upload your definition …

But to your questions 1 and 2:
Why you want to pack random pieces and after that you want to align them so every edge has the same length. Picture 2 just looks like a simple voronoi to me. And this could be easily done on a surface.
And random ngons won’t be planar on a curved surface, if you want a half way nice connection between. I mean there are ways to do that, but your surface or the ngons need to be made after another not random in the same time. As good as I know, may I‘m wrong.

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Hi Tim,

Really sorry for not posting the file earlier as I lost a lot of my data due to a hardware issue. But here goes. Hoping you can have a look at it.Stacking.gh (99.7 KB)