I’ve got some circles to nest onto a rectangular sheet and thought I’d try using K2 - I’m on R5 too btw. I can get the centres of the circles to stay inside the rectangle and the circles to collide with each other but I can’t get the circles to collide with the rectangle and each other… [image] U…

[image] With the grab for rearrangement this makes a challenging puzzle. circlenestpuzzle.gh (17.6 KB) What’s the smallest square anyone can fit this set of circles inside? I got it down to 1965, but surely lower is possible.

Seriously @martynjhogg ? Does everyone need their own “Personal Jesus”? https://discourse.mcneel.com/search?q=KANGAROO2%20Circle%20Packing [Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus (Official Video)] [image] Circle Packing Perforations Grasshopper I’ve read just about e…

Fudged it with one rectangle for each circle radius… [image] NEST_CIRCLES.gh (14.8 KB)

Thanks for that @Joseph_Oster I’ve read those posts and don’t believe there is one that answers this particular problem. There’s circle packing on surfaces, circle packing with different rads from images, circle packing within borders with same sized spheres… it’s a circle packing jungle out there …

It’s true that the topic of ‘circle packing’ actually covers a huge range of different topics. I’ve been trying for a while now to write a comprehensive guide to circle packing with Kangaroo, but there are just so many variations. Ken Stephenson has focused most of his research career on circle pac…

Thanks! To be honest, I’d skimmed past that post in the search results because I followed it when it was current and remembered it as being related to same sized circles. I guess the search for circle packing specifics will always be a long one until your guide to circle packing hits the shelves! …

NEST_CIRCLES3.gh (17.0 KB) …and here’s one that includes the curve containment in the same goal

So the actual challenge, if you are interested, is to nest 3 sets of the circles into 5 sheets of 1220 x 2440mm. I was thinking something like this but with 3 sets of the circles… [image] I wonder if this could be the basis of some AI nesting software… Current nesting software seems to be brute f…

This page might provide some clues http://hydra.nat.uni-magdeburg.de/packing/

Hi Daniel, Thanks for your sharing. Base on your gh file, I wonder if we can add 2D close curve acts like a “vaccum bag” to achieve a minimal 2D bounday for the circles (see my hand sketch)? Thanks for any suggestion! [F56338472B93AD4C1DFD9CC6C5F8D73C] circlenestpuzzle.3dm (31.5 KB) circlenestpu…

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Fudged it with one rectangle for each circle radius…

NEST_CIRCLES.gh (14.8 KB)

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