Hello, I have some visual tests to do. how can I get a packing of spheres inside a closed shape. goal is to know how many spheres would fit for further build. Ive looked around but didnt find a solution in the forums. Example 10in x 10in x10in cube. filled with 1in diameter spheres. would it…

I dont know blender, but GH does physics too. [image] Sphere Packing Grasshopper Has anyone been able to transfer 2D circle packing to 3D sphere packing? Surface tension may be more Cotonou? But I’m interested in solid sphere packing where the spheres stay spherical? Cave…

This is an idea using voronoi if there is a way to create spheres inside the cells [12] [sphere]

For a rough approximation you can use the volume fraction approach Ethan gives above. The actual number of spheres would generally be less than predicted by this though, depending on their size relative to the volume, its shape, and how they are physically put in there are these ball-bearings pouri…

If, as Daniel stated, my previous method overstates the number of spheres, here’s a solution which will slightly understate it. Since the CCP packing has four spheres per unit cell, if you divide the cell into eight subcells, each one will contain 1/2 sphere. The ideas is to create a lattice of one …

This idea need a scripting maybe ; create network from points where the distance between points is fixed x or >x and the spheres radius is x/2 [15]

Tnx, I think i can figure out thr Kangeroo2 version (i already haveit but maybe the wrong version) but what is the multiplication ? ? ? im missing and betweeen what is it connected ? [1]

Which Rhino version and service release are you using?

Hi Daniel, I’m struggling to use this with different spheres radius, Can i get some help? thanks

Hi @danilo.gigantelli You could try this: [image] Sphere Packing Grasshopper [spheresmesh] spheremeshtest.gh (17.3 KB) Collisions between spheres of different radii is possible with the ‘collider’ goal. I realised though that there wasn’t really anything in there for c…

Oh I tried with this, but the problem is that i have to fill a closed mesh

Packing spheres in volume of shape

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DanielPiker (Daniel Piker) April 12, 2021, 8:36am 17

Hi @danilo.gigantelli
You could try this:

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Packing spheres in volume of shape

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