hello guys does anyone know a method to be able to pack circles inside a spiral. I attach my [Canvas at 19;33;59] Packing_circles_inside_a_spiral.gh (6.2 KB) file below

The coils of the curve there do not have constant spacing on the surface. If you rebuild the spiral so they do, you can divide by distance like this [image] spiralcircs2.gh (226.2 KB)

Hi @travemaxi The inputs are missing in your file. Here’s a previous thread on spiral circle packings [image] Doyle Spiral Circle Packing Grasshopper Greetings, I am trying to achieve what is known as Doyle Spiral packing (space filling) [ref] the mathematical equati…

hi Daniel, i attach the updated gh file. Yes, given a non-mathematical spiral curve, I would need circles of more or less equal size that are as close as possible to each other and between the coils. Packing_circles_inside_a_spiral.gh (113.0 KB)

It works perfectly. Thanks Daniel.

Packing circles inside a spiral

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DanielPiker (Daniel Piker) May 30, 2023, 6:11pm 2

Hi @travemaxi
The inputs are missing in your file.
Here’s a previous thread on spiral circle packings

Are you looking for something like this, or with equal sized circles?

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Packing circles inside a spiral

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